{"id":309040,"date":"2025-11-26T03:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309040\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:02:17","slug":"adam-edstrom-turning-his-rangers-wake-up-call-into-on-ice-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309040\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Edstrom turning his Rangers ‘wake-up call’ into on-ice results"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all looked different from above.<\/p>\n

From high in Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena, Adam Edstrom was turned into a spectator last week, watching his teammates as a healthy scratch<\/a> for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

It had been more than a month since the fourth-line center had produced a point. It had been 15 games \u2014 and more than 160 minutes of ice time \u2014 since he\u2019d recorded his only assists of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks a lot simpler from up there,\u201d Edstrom said of the press box view. \u201cOne thing I took from it was the time with the puck. I\u2019ve gotta slow it down a little bit. I was a little stressed with the puck in the beginning so that\u2019s one part of my game I learned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took that time off, I tried to work hard, get a bit of confidence back. Looking back on it, it might\u2019ve been a good thing for me. I\u2019m happy to be back and I feel good out there. \u2026 I feel like my confidence is a little higher now, so I\u2019m playing a little freer.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the three games since Mike Sullivan\u2019s shake-up \u2014 when Edstrom, 25, was benched in favor of a player (Juuso Parssinen) who was put on waivers<\/a> on Tuesday \u2014 the 6-foot-7 Swede has scored his first two goals of the season, including Monday\u2019s eventual game-winner against the Blues, which helped the Rangers (11-11-2) end a season-worst four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

\"AdamAdam Edstrom of the New York Rangers shoots and scores in the third period against Joel Hofer of the St. Louis Blues. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting scratched is a bit of a wake-up call,\u201d Edstrom said after Tuesday\u2019s practice. \u201cI didn\u2019t really feel like I was putting my best game out there. In my head, I was just like, \u2018Come back, skate hard, do everything you can with the minutes you get,\u2019 and I feel like so far I\u2019ve done that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just trying to see it as a mental reset. That was really big for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edstrom\u2019s downturn coincided with the injury to linemate Matt Rempe<\/a> \u2014 who has been out since Oct. 23 \u2014 but Sullivan said the forward\u2019s recent impact extends far beyond the box score, playing alongside Sam Carrick and Taylor Raddysh, heading into Wednesday\u2019s game at Eastern Conference-leading Carolina (14-6-2),<\/p>\n

\u201c[There is] just more urgency and a little more detail to his game,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to utilize those guys in some defensive situations. Maybe we can take guys like Mika [Zibanejad] and J.T. [Miller] and [Vincent Trocheck] out of some of those uneasy minutes. That\u2019s a vital role that our bottom-six can help us. The size that\u2019s on that line, their reach, makes them hard to play against.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen [Edstrom] is locked in from a defensive standpoint with the details, I think he\u2019s a very effective player. The other thing we\u2019ve seen from him is he\u2019s a disruptive player. He\u2019s capable of that with his skating, his reach, his range, he has physicality to him, he can get in on the forecheck and he can disrupt breakouts. He can create loose pucks and within that lies opportunity. That can help us create momentum by wearing down our opponent and being disruptive in all three zones and I think that\u2019s when [Edstrom\u2019s] at his best.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The best may still be ahead<\/a>. Motivation is easy to find.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think players respond to ice time, or lack thereof, in the event we don\u2019t think they\u2019re meeting expectations,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cIce time is one measure of accountability. You can communicate with players in different ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerformance matters. We\u2019re trying to put the best guys on the ice that gives us the best chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It all looked different from above. From high in Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena, Adam Edstrom was turned into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3617,575,85],"class_list":["post-309040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}