{"id":494586,"date":"2026-02-21T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494586\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:42:08","slug":"rangers-matt-rempe-will-undergo-thumb-procedure-placed-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494586\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers’ Matt Rempe Will Undergo Thumb Procedure, Placed On IR"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan<\/a> will have to make some lineup changes when he returns from Team USA\u2019s run at the Winter Olympics. The Rangers announced that enforcer Matt Rempe<\/a> will undergo another procedure to fix the thumb injury that held him out of 24 games earlier in the season, per the New York Post\u2019s Mollie Walker<\/a>. Rempe has been placed on injured reserve while he recovers from the procedure. He will be eligible to return on February 27th, the day after New York\u2019s first game back from the Olympic break.<\/p>\n

Rempe sustained his injury in a fight with San Jose Sharks winger Ryan Reaves<\/a> in late October. He stayed out of the lineup until mid-December, then rotated into games through the start of the Olympic break. Rempe has totaled one goal, a minus-four, and 11 penalty minutes in 26 games this season. He has also thrown 86 hits, giving him the highest per-game average on the team.<\/p>\n

The NHL\u2019s tallest player has stuck to his fourth-line role in the Rangers lineup this season \u2013 though with a bit more poise than normal. Rempe went 12 games without a penalty after returning from his injury in December. He followed that with back-to-back games with a penalty but avoided the penalty box in his last three games. A part of that discipline is surely Rempe\u2019s inability to fight while he nurses an injured thumb. He has only two fights this season, after recording six last season. His health will continue to be assessed as New York kicks back into gear for the season\u2019s final sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan will have to make some lineup changes when he returns from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3899,131788,3617,575,85,206],"class_list":["post-494586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-injury","tag-matt-rempe","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494586","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=494586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}