James Reimer signed a one-year, $850,000 contract with the New York Rangers on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old goalie signed a professional tryout contract with Hartford of the American Hockey League on Oct. 15. He made 35 saves in his first and only start for New York’s top affiliate, a 2-0 win against Providence on Friday, that made him the oldest with a shutout (38 years, 222 days) in the AHL since Wade Flaherty (40 years, 62 days) for Rockford on March 13, 2008.<\/p>\n
Reimer\u00a0last played in the NHL for the Ottawa Senators, making 19 saves in a 3-1 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs on April 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spencer Martin<\/a> has been the backup to Dylan Garand<\/a>, who has made eight consecutive starts for the Rangers since Igor Shesterkin<\/a>\u00a0sustained a season-ending lower-body injury in a 3-1 loss at the Washington Capitals on Oct. 9, New York’s sixth game of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Garand, a 24-year-old seeing his first extended action in the NHL, is 4-4-1 with a 2.65 goals-against average, .900 save percentage and one shutout.\u00a0<\/p>\n Reimer is 232-191-67 with a 2.88 GAA, .909 save percentage and 32 shutouts in 539 regular-season games (492 starts) for the Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks, Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes, Detroit Red Wings, Anaheim Ducks, Buffalo Sabres and Senators. He’s 5-5 with a 2.70 GAA, and .925 save percentage in 11 Stanley Cup Playoff games (10 starts).<\/p>\n The Rangers (7-5-1) begin a four-game homestand against the Los Angeles Kings at Madison Square Garden on Monday (7 p.m. ET; ABTV, NHLN, MSG, TVAS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Reimer signed a one-year, $850,000 contract with the New York Rangers on Sunday. The 38-year-old goalie signed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-945896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}