The New York Rangers have announced they have signed veteran center Luke Glendening into the organization on a professional tryout agreement, giving the 37-year-old an opportunity to compete for a spot amid injuries in their forward ranks.
This represents Glendening’s second PTO of the current season. He previously held a similar deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning before being released in late September.
Under the terms of a PTO, a player may only participate in preseason contests; a standard NHL contract is required before any regular-season games can be played.
Glendening, a 13-year veteran, enters the tryout with a lengthy NHL résumé that includes 934 career games. He most recently appeared with the Philadelphia Flyers after splitting the 2025-26 campaign between Philadelphia and the New Jersey Devils.
Across 70 games that season, he recorded two goals and nine points.
With the Flyers, he logged an average of 12:22 of ice time per night, spent roughly two minutes on the penalty kill, and won 57.2 percent of his faceoffs.
Those numbers underscored his role as a defensive-minded fourth-line center whose primary contributions come in the faceoff circle and on the penalty kill rather than on the scoresheet.
For the Rangers, the addition offers a potential stabilizing presence in the bottom six. The club recently recalled Taylor Raddysh, a winger valued for his defensive awareness and penalty-killing work, and Glendening shares many of the same traits.
He could push for ice time currently being filled by Justin Dowling, who has been elevated in place of Joe Veleno. Veleno, signed to a one-year, $1.2 million contract last summer to handle a checking role, is on long-term injured reserve.
While Glendening supplies little in the way of offensive production, his reliability as a faceoff specialist and his experience as a regular penalty killer align with New York’s needs.
In the playoffs last spring, he averaged nearly 14 minutes per game and helped the Flyers eliminate the Pittsburgh Penguins in the opening round.
Earlier in his career Glendening drew consideration for the Selke Trophy, and he continues to be deployed regularly on the penalty kill.
Making the Rangers roster is far from assured, yet the combination of injuries and uneven play deeper in the forward group creates a realistic path.
New York currently ranks second in the league in penalty killing, stopping 93.5 percent of opposing power plays. Adding Glendening would further strengthen that unit.
With roughly $4.4 million in available salary-cap space, the Rangers also possess the financial flexibility to convert a successful tryout into a standard contract if he earns a place on the roster.
