Rangers’ Arthur Kaliyev to miss rest of 2024-25 NHL season

New York Rangers’ forward Arthur Kaliyev will miss the rest of the 2024-25 NHL season with an upper-body injury.

The 23-year-old winger has three goals and one assists for four points in 14 games with the Rangers this season after being claimed on waivers by New York from the Los Angeles Kings on Jan. 6.

Before then, Kaliyev had played five games with the Kings’ AHL affiliate, the Ontario Reign, scoring a goal and assist.

In five NHL seasons, Kaliyev has 38 goals and 37 assists for 75 points in 202 career regular-season games. His most productive season came in 2022-23, where he scored 13 goals and 15 assists for 28 points in 56 games.

During his first professional season in 2020-21, Kaliyev had 14 goals and 17 assists for 31 points in 40 games with the AHL’s Reign.

Before turning pro, Kaliyev, a 2019 second-round pick for the Kings, spent three seasons with the OHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs. After helping the team win an OHL Championship in 2017-18, Kaliyev went on to have two highly productive seasons, scoring 102 and 98 points in 2018-19 and 2019-20, respectively.

This season, the Rangers are 33-29-6 with 72 points, fourth in the Metropolitan Division and currently holding on to the second Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference. New York has a goal differential of zero and are 4-4-2 in their last 10 games.

Forward Artemi Panarin leads the team in multiple categories, with 29 goals and 72 points. Defenseman Adam Fox leads in assists with 44 while averaging a team-leading 23:12 of ice time. Goaltender Igor Shesterkin is 23-23-4 with a .907 save percentage (SV%) and 2.80 goals against average (GAA).