{"id":465492,"date":"2026-02-21T07:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/465492\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:28:26","slug":"matt-rempe-heading-to-ir-for-another-thumb-procedure-in-latest-rangers-crusher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/465492\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Rempe heading to IR for another thumb procedure in latest Rangers crusher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Rempe is probably giving this season a thumbs down.<\/p>\n

The Rangers forward is set to undergo a second procedure on his left thumb and is heading to injured reserve, The Post\u2019s Mollie Walker reported Friday.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not clear when he is expected to return to the ice.<\/p>\n

The issue for the 23-year-old stems from a fight during an Oct. 23 game against the Sharks\u2019 Matt Reaves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After missing 24 games \u2014 including the entirety of November \u2014 and finally returning in mid-December, Rempe revealed he had undergone surgery<\/a> after breaking his thumb in \u201cmany places\u201d during the heavyweight bout.<\/p>\n

Rempe admitted adrenaline kept him from feeling the injury until well after the fight.<\/p>\n

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In January, despite practicing fully, Rempe was a healthy scratch for seven games with the lingering effects of the thumb issue not allowing the hulking forward to play at his best level.<\/p>\n

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New York Rangers center Matt Rempe (73) and New York Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech (3) fight during the second period when the New York Islanders played the New York Rangers Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at UBS Arena in Elmont, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t realize how much a thumb impacts you,\u201d Rempe told The Post\u2019s Andrew Crane<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

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New York Rangers center Matt Rempe and San Jose Sharks right wing Ryan Reaves get into a scuffle in the first period at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 23, 2025. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n

\u201cLike, any time I don\u2019t catch a puck perfectly, it felt like a hot potato on my stick. And like stick battles, I was dropping my stick multiple times a game, and any stick battles, if someone\u2019s stick-lifting me, that puck\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did return to the Rangers lineup on Jan. 26 and played in the team\u2019s final five games before the 2026 Winter Olympics break.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-9 winger has just one point in 26 games this season, a goal against the Penguins on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Rempe is probably giving this season a thumbs down. The Rangers forward is set to undergo a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5550,5,56446,1664,3328,159,35,5190,5193,4,36,7590,168],"class_list":["post-465492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-rangers","tag-adam-pelech","tag-hockey","tag-matt-reaves","tag-matt-rempe","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkrangers","tag-nhl","tag-rangers","tag-ryan-reaves","tag-san-jose-sharks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116107445498137212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465492","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=465492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}