Filip Chytil turned a career-best season into a contract extension with the Rangers.
The Czech center signed a four-year deal with an average annual value of $4.438 million to remain a Blueshirt through the 2026-27 season, according to a source.
With the deal, the Rangers solidified their top three centers for the foreseeable future.
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Chytil was set be a restricted free agent with arbitration rights at the end of this season.
His new contract covers the next two years of his RFA status.
It is believed the Rangers are aiming to keep all of their young core.
They will negotiate with RFA’s K’Andre Miller and Alexis Lafreniere on their new contracts this offseason.
The 23-year-old Chytil has come into his own the past two seasons.
After scoring seven goals and with two assists during the Rangers’ run to the conference finals, Chytil carried it over into this season.
In addition to setting career highs in goals (22) and assists (20) in his sixth season in New York, Chytil has become an impact player on a nightly basis.
Among NHL centers 23 years or younger, he ranks tied for fifth in goals.
The Rangers drafted Chytil 21st overall in 2017, and the then-18-year-old skated in nine games during his rookie season.
Since 2018-19, however, Chytil has been a full-time member of the Rangers lineup.