Dylan Garand at the 2025 AHL All-Star Classic. (Image Credit: Mike Zitek/Coachella Valley Firebirds via Wikimedia Commons)

By Victor Kaisar

Garand Re-Signs

Rangers re-sign ex-Blazer Dylan Garand to one-year contract extension

Aug 17, 2025 | 12:26 PM

NEW YORK — The New York Rangers have re-signed goaltender Dylan Garand to a one-year contract extension.

The 23-year-old former Kamloops Blazer has spent his entire professional career with the Rangers organization. Last season, he posted career highs in wins (20), goals-against average (2.73) and save percentage (.913) in 39 games with the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack.

Garand also had three shutouts last season and he represented the Wolf Pack in the 2025 AHL All-Star Challenge in February.

While the Rangers did not disclose terms of Garand’s contract extension, its is believed to be worth US $775,000 in the NHL and US $100,000 in the AHL. Garand will be a restricted free agent at the end of the 2025-26 hockey season.

Garand is expected to be a full-time AHL starter and the Rangers third-choice goaltender behind Igor Shesterkin and Jonathan Quick. He’s yet to make his NHL debut, though he’s taken warmups on a number of occasions.

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A native of Victoria, Garand has a 49-42-16 record across four AHL seasons with a career 2.92 goals-against average and .902 save percentage. He also has 10 wins in 17 AHL playoff games in 2023 and 2024.

Garand, the 2021-22 Canadian Hockey League goaltender of the year, was a fourth-round of the New York Rangers in the 2020 NHL Draft.

As a Blazer, Garand posted a 90-31-5-2 record in 136 regular season games over five seasons. He ended his WHL career with 12 shutouts, a 2.33 goals against average and a .919 save percentage.

Garand returns to Kamloops each summer to train during the off-season and was featured in a recent Tattle of Hastings episode.