{"id":465059,"date":"2026-02-20T23:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/465059\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:03:53","slug":"new-york-rangers-f-matt-rempe-to-be-placed-on-ir-after-second-procedure-on-injured-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/465059\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers F Matt Rempe to be placed on IR after second procedure on injured thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/matt-rempe\/8482460\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/matt-rempe\/8482460\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Rempe<\/a> is going to be placed on Injured Reserve after having a second procedure on his injured thumb, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As Peter Baugh of The Athletic reports, the team will continue to evaluate his recovery and have not ruled him out for the season at this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The injury was suffered in a fight with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-reaves\/8471817\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-reaves\/8471817\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Reaves<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> earlier in the season, and caused Rempe to miss 24 games. He returned for a month and a half, but will now take more time to get fully healthy as the Rangers sit at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings at 22-29-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rempe, 23, has one goal in 26 games this season. The towering 6-foot-9 enforcer has played in 85 games since making his NHL debut in 2023-24, and has five goals and 11 points in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rangers forward Matt Rempe is going to be placed on Injured Reserve after having a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[4759,5,3328,35,33359,5190,5193,4,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-465059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-new-york-rangers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-3","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkrangers","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116105462414574217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465059","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=465059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}