tRY IT NOW <\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI think, maybe, learning to be more honest about how it\u2019s feeling, per se,\u201d he said Friday as the Rangers cleaned out their lockers for the summer. \u201cAnd that\u2019s a good lesson because I feel like I\u2019m the type of guy who just wants to go. If I can play, I can play type of thing. I think that needed more talking. The thing is, the second surgery, I didn\u2019t want to do it originally. But then realized it 100 percent had to get done.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to see how the first one was going to heal. When it didn\u2019t go the way it was planned at all, then it had to be done. It was a learning [experience], but there was nothing I could\u2019ve done differently because it wouldn\u2019t have gotten better on its own. It had to have another procedure on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rangers center Matt Rempe (73) when the New York Rangers held their end of season interviews Friday, April 17, 2026 at Madison Square Garden Training Center in Greenburgh, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n
Having carved his NHL path with his fists and physicality, Rempe had to decline fights to allow his thumb to heal. His inability to play his usual style clearly took him out of the game, making it more difficult for him to find ways to make an impact.<\/p>\n
The stretch of play from late December into January was one the most difficult for Rempe, who said he felt like he was \u201cnot good\u201d and \u201cjust skating around.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t me at all,\u201d Rempe added.<\/p>\n
Signed through next season at $975,000, Rempe will go into training camp with multiple former Wolf Pack teammates competing against him for a bottom-six role.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to go out there and be good every night and play physical and play my game,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re not able to do that, you just feel like \u2014 I was down. That was a tough, tough month for me there. That was a good learning [experience]. You\u2019re gonna have highs and lows, and that was definitely a low, but just learn from it. Now we got it right so we can come back in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam Edstrom missed 33 consecutive games after suffering a fracture in his ankle that required surgery in December.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played through it for almost six weeks,\u201d he said. \u201cEventually, me and the doctors made a decision together that was best for me and the longevity of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the Rangers who spoke with the media Friday, Finland\u2019s Urho Vaakanainen and Slovakia\u2019s Adam Sykora said they will be reporting to their respective national teams for the World Championship in May.<\/p>\n
Gabe Perrault said he had conversations with Team USA about participating in this year\u2019s tournament, but the Rangers rookie ultimately decided not to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is a big summer for me, and I want to spend more time in the gym and be able to put some more strength on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows Rangers center Matt Rempe (73) when the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,1664,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,33,8036],"class_list":{"0":"post-555199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-matt-rempe","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkrangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-the-rangers","17":"tag-urho-vaakanainen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116425372189754776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555199","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=555199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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