With 12 games remaining for the New York Rangers this season, it does not appear as if Matt Rempe will return to the lineup.<\/p>\n
Rempe has missed the past 13 games due to a broken thumb that he suffered in a game against the San Jose Sharks on Oct. 23 after a fight with Ryan Reaves.<\/p>\n
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The broken thumb required surgery, and Rempe was placed on long-term injured reserve, missing a total of 24 games.<\/p>\n
Upon returning to the lineup in December, the 23-year-old forward struggled, failing to record a point in 17 games, and he admitted that he still faced limitations due to his injured thumb.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was out for about two months, and it hasn’t gone as I wanted it to when I came back,\u201d Rempe said in January. \u201cIt isn\u2019t bad or anything, but it’s just been okay\u2026 Just getting my thumb back. I just need to keep working. It’s harder on my stick right now. It\u2019s my top hand, so it\u2019s hard in the battles and stuff, but there\u2019s no excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Rempe was placed on injured reserve in February, as he was forced to undergo a second thumb surgery.<\/p>\n
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On Monday, Mike Sullivan revealed that he \u201cwould be surprised\u201d if Rempe plays again to close out the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to investigate more on that, but what I\u2019ll tell you is I\u2019d be surprised if he plays,\u201d Sullivan said of Rempe\u2019s status.<\/p>\n
In other injury news, Noah Laba, who is week-to-week with a lower-body injury and Urho Vaakanainen who is week-to-week with an upper-body injury, are both progressing and skated on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 12 games remaining for the New York Rangers this season, it does not appear as if Matt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[60385,5,1664,1955,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,15773,7590,168,39086,8036],"class_list":["post-519511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-rangers","tag-broken-thumb","tag-hockey","tag-matt-rempe","tag-mike-sullivan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkrangers","tag-nhl","tag-rangers","tag-rempe","tag-ryan-reaves","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-thumb-surgery","tag-urho-vaakanainen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116281910446245005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519511","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=519511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}