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The New York Rangers have promoted Tanner Glass to director of player development following Jed Ortmeyer's departure. Glass has been with the organization since 2019 as assistant director and played for the Rangers from 2014 to 2017.
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The New York Rangers promoted Tanner Glass to director of player development on Saturday, one day after Jed Ortmeyer left the organization after nine years in that role.
Glass served as the team’s assistant director of player development since June 2019 and figured to be a top candidate if president and general manager Chris Drury wanted to promote from within.
The 42-year-old was a bottom-six forward during his 11 seasons in the NHL and was a member of the Rangers from 2014-17. The Regina, Saskatchewan, native appeared in 66 regular-season games and 19 playoff contests for the Blueshirts in 2014-15, helping New York advance to the Eastern Conference Final, though the Rangers lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning in seven games.
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He retired after playing 16 games for the Calgary Flames in 2017-18 with 69 points (24 goals, 45 assists) and 658 penalty minutes in 527 NHL regular-season games, including six goals and 15 points in 134 games during his three seasons with the Blueshirts. Glass also had two goals and six points in 67 Stanley Cup Playoff games, including one goal and four points in 30 games with New York.
Tanner Glass is the newly appointed director of player development for the New York Rangers, having previously served as the assistant director since 2019.
Jed Ortmeyer left the Rangers organization after nine years in the role of director of player development, paving the way for Tanner Glass's promotion.
Tanner Glass had an 11-season NHL career as a bottom-six forward, including a stint with the Rangers from 2014 to 2017, where he played in 66 regular-season games and 19 playoff games.
During his playing career with the Rangers, Tanner Glass helped the team reach the Eastern Conference Final in the 2014-15 season.
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Player development was an issue for the Rangers under Ortmeyer and was a key in back-to-back playoff misses in the past two seasons. Top-10 picks Lias Andersson (No. 7 in 2017) and Vitaly Kravtsov (No. 9 in 2019) were busts, and Kaapo Kakko (No. 2 in 2019) never lived up to his draft status before the Rangers traded him to the Seattle Kraken in December 2024. Forward Alexis Lafreniere, the first player taken in the 2020 draft, has not reached 30 goals or 60 points in his six NHL seasons.
2023 first-rounder Gabe Perreault showed promise this season but still has more to prove at the NHL level.
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Brennan Othmann, taken with the 16th pick in 2021, never panned out and was traded to the Calgary Flames in March. Lafreniere and defenseman Braden Schneider (No. 19 in 2020) are the only players left from the Rangers’ nine first-round picks from 2017-21, although they did have some success with recent mid- and late-round picks this season.
In addition, the Rangers’ AHL affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack, finished last in the league this season and has failed to consistently produce NHL-ready depth, generating criticism that the player development operation need a complete overhaul. With the Rangers embarking on what Drury in January called a “retool” that’s going to be driven by adding young talent, a change in leadership for the player development operation isn’t surprising.
The first move came April 8, when Kevin Maxwell rejoined the Rangers as director of pro scouting. He’ll work alongside John Lilley, who’s their amateur scoring director, when it comes to running the player personnel department. Maxwell, now 66, spent 14 years scouting in the Rangers organization and was their director of pro scouting from 2011-22 before leaving to become the general manager of the St. Louis Blues’ AHL affiliate after Drury made a number of moves in the Blueshirts’ scouting operation.
Maxwell was with the Rangers during their rebuild after a successful run in the 2010s, and his return came less than three months after Drury’s announcement of the current retool. He and Glass were together with the Rangers for three years.
Drury was asked during a Zoom call with the media on April 17 whether the Rangers were considering changes to their player development staff. He responded that they “are looking at every different department and areas as to what we can do better.”
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The Rangers figure to have a chance to add the kind of prime young talent they’ve been lacking in this year’s NHL Draft. By finishing 30th in the overall standings, New York has an 11.5 percent chance of landing the No. 1 overall pick in next week’s draft lottery, according to Tankathon. Even if they don’t get the first pick, the Rangers will be in the top five and should get a premium selection.
They also own the Dallas Stars’ first-round pick, which should be in the early-to-mid 20s. The Stars were eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs when they lost 5-2 to the Minnesota Wild on Thursday.
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