The New York Rangers have agreed to a two-year contract extension with pending restricted free agent forward Adam Edstrom, the club announced Monday afternoon.
Edstrom, 24, appeared in 51 games with the Rangers during the 2024-25 regular season, collecting five goals and nine points while averaging 9:16 of ice time per night.
Standing 6’7″ and weighing in at 240 pounds, Edstrom is one of the tallest players currently in the NHL and one of the tallest forwards in league history. His new contract carries a $975,000 cap hit and is a one-way deal.
#NYR and Adam Edstrom have agreed to terms on a two-year contract extension.
Full details: https://t.co/H2kPZTPYGA pic.twitter.com/UX86SRzxdR— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) June 23, 2025
The Rangers originally selected Edstrom in the sixth round (No. 161 overall) of the 2019 NHL Draft. The Karlstad, Sweden product signed his entry-level deal with the Rangers in 2022.
After spending the 2022-23 season with SHL club Rogle BK, scoring 19 points in 42 games, Edstrom made the jump over to North America. He split the 2023-24 campaign between the Rangers and the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack before establishing himself as a full-time NHLer in 2024-25.
Through 62 games over parts of two seasons with the Rangers, Edstrom has collected seven goals and 11 points. His new contract takes him through the end of the 2026-27 season, at which point he’ll be a 26-year-old RFA with arbitration rights.
With Edstrom now back in the fold, the Rangers have nine RFAs left to deal with this offseason: forwards Will Cuylle, Arthur Kaliyev, Jake Leschyshyn, Brendan Brisson, and Lucas Edmonds; defensemen K’Andre Miller and Zac Jones; and goaltenders Dylan Garand and Talyn Boyko.
The Rangers finished the 2024-25 season with a 39-36-7 record, enough for 85 points and a fifth-place finish in the Metropolitan Division — a disastrous result after they won the Presidents’ Trophy in 2024. After the season ended, GM Chris Drury replaced head coach Peter Laviolette with Mike Sullivan and traded longest-tenured player Chris Kreider to the Anaheim Ducks, setting the stage for an enormously consequential summer in the Big Apple.
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