Rangers send Brisson, Morrow to Hartford; recall Pärssinen, Chmelař after Miller IR

New York Rangers President and General Manager Chris Drury announced that the club assigned forward Brendan Brisson and defenseman Scott Morrow to the Hartford Wolf Pack while recalling forwards Juuso Pärssinen and Jaroslav Chmelař from Hartford, a move carried out around March 3, 2026 and distributed via Hartford and New York PR channels. The press release noted Brisson, 24, has appeared in 46 AHL games this season with 23 points, including 13 goals and 10 assists, and leads Hartford with six power-play goals.

The roster shift follows J.T. Miller’s placement on injured reserve with an upper-body injury, a development reported by The Hockey News that noted Miller has 14 goals, 24 assists and 38 points in 51 games while averaging 20:39 of ice time. Media accounts cited a third-period puck-to-head incident as a possible cause and framed the recalls as corresponding moves to fill NHL roster minutes left vacant by Miller’s absence.

Brendan Brisson returns to Hartford after three NHL games this season with one assist; Hartford’s release also emphasized his first AHL All-Star selection at the 2026 AHL All-Star Classic in Rockford, IL. Over parts of two seasons with the Wolf Pack Brisson has 29 points, 15 goals and 14 assists in 60 games, and he was acquired from the Vegas Golden Knights on March 6, 2025, along with a third-round pick, in the Reilly Smith trade.

Scott Morrow was among the players sent down to Hartford; Blueshirt Banter’s Chris Feldman observed, “Mike Sullivan has scratched him in the last four games and appears to have no interest in playing him as things currently stand,” and added that carrying eight defensemen in the NHL made a healthy AHL landing spot necessary for Morrow to get “meaningful hockey games.” The Hartford release did not list Morrow’s 2025–26 statistical totals.

Juuso Pärssinen and Jaroslav Chmelař were the two forwards recalled to New York. Sources show spelling variations - Hartford PR uses “Juuso Pärssinen” while other outlets render “Jusso Parssinen,” and Hartford lists “Jaroslav Chmelař” with diacritics while social posts use “Jaroslav Chmelar.” Chmelař’s Hartford resume is substantial: 124 AHL games and 56 points (22 goals, 34 assists) over parts of three seasons, and the club notes he “has also skated in six games with the Rangers” and “made his NHL debut on Nov. 7, 2025, against the Detroit Red Wings.” Blueshirt Banter projects both recalls will “slot into respective bottom six roles” and that Chmelař will shoulder physical responsibilities amid roster absences.

These moves are a reminder of the AHL-NHL pipeline’s business reality: Hartford’s transaction page even notes “Hartford Wolf Pack transactions during the 2025-26 season are powered by Verizon,” and social distribution amplified the story—an NYR social repost in r/rangers showed a 5:10 PM 3/3/26 timestamp with 47K views in the snippet. From an audience standpoint, internal engagement analysis shows 96.9 percent of readers view content without sharing and only 3.1 percent spark comments, a dynamic that turns these roster shuffles into storytelling opportunities when tied to recognizable names like J.T. Miller and Brisson’s All-Star nod.

Reporters should note a couple of verification items before filing follow-ups: the Hartford excerpt contains an ambiguous antecedent for the Nov. 7, 2025 NHL debut sentence, and Blueshirt Banter’s coaching attribution and scratch timeline for Morrow merit confirmation against game logs or official team statements. Looking ahead, Pärssinen’s goal-scoring momentum and Chmelař’s physical game will be measured in short order as the Rangers test bottom-six reinforcements while Miller recovers on IR.