{"id":444309,"date":"2026-02-04T01:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444309\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:17:18","slug":"how-rangers-decline-has-short-circuited-matt-rempes-electric-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444309\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rangers&#8217; decline has short-circuited Matt Rempe&#8217;s electric impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rempemania feels like it happened a lifetime ago now.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers added Matt Rempe to their lineup just under two years ago, when the 6-foot-9 wing became the first player to make his NHL debut in an outdoor game at the Stadium Series against the Islanders in front of 79,690 fans at MetLife Stadium. He <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/18\/sports\/rangers-matt-rempe-fights-islanders-matt-martin-on-first-nhl-shift\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">engaged in his first NHL fight<\/a> with Matt Martin less than a minute and a half after the puck dropped.<\/p>\n<p>It was almost like foreshadowing the early days of Rempe\u2019s NHL career: all eyes on him, gloves on the ice and a tangible excitement that he was wearing red, white and blue.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary kid was a shot in the arm for a Blueshirts team that was enjoying its best season in a decade at the time. What he brought to the ice complemented their game and injected a new element to the Rangers\u2019 established style of play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rempemania feels like it happened a lifetime ago now. The Rangers added Matt Rempe to their lineup just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,2540,1664,2310,35,4,2541,43,336],"class_list":["post-444309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-hockey","tag-inside-the-rangers","tag-matt-rempe","tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116009726721658303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}