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List of New York Rangers draft picks

Wikimedia list article

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ3815301 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a complete list of ice hockey players who were drafted in the National Hockey League Entry Draft by the New York Rangers franchise. It includes every player who was drafted, regardless of whether they played for the team.

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Played at least one game with the Rangers

Bold indicates currently active in the Rangers organization or the Rangers own their NHL rights.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 64-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, York and Rangers is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of New York Rangers draft picks” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.