missed the past seven contests<\/a> with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s making progress,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cHe\u2019s not there yet. His return to play isn\u2019t imminent. If it was, he\u2019d be with us. We\u2019ll let you know when that happens, but he\u2019s making progress.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vincent Trocheck has missed the past seven contests with an upper-body injury. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
Sullivan tweaked the Rangers forward lines again, bumping Taylor Raddysh up to the top line with Artemi Panarin and J.T. Miller after he posted a hat trick in the previous game.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think his last couple, he\u2019s played really well,\u201d Sullivan said of Raddysh. \u201cObviously, the last game he had was a real strong game for him, and I think performance matters. The guys that play well we\u2019re trying to reward with more significant ice time or opportunity or whatever it may be.\u201d<\/p>\n
New Jersey Devils center Nico Hischier (13) pursues New York Rangers center Matt Rempe (73) in the first period at Madison Square Garden, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in New York, NY. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
Conor Sheary and Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re flank Mika Zibanejad, while Will Cuylle, Noah Laba and Brennan Othmann make up the Rangers third unit. The fourth line featured Adam Edstrom, Sam Carrick and Juuso Parssinen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, there\u2019s more balance,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cI would acknowledge that. Would you guys agree? So there\u2019s more balance, and, you know, we\u2019ll see where it goes. When we\u2019re on the road, we can\u2019t always control the matchups. When you have a balanced attack, that helps a little bit, on both sides of the puck. <\/p>\n
New York Islanders goaltender Marcus Hogberg (L) stops a puck that was deflected by New York Rangers center Vincent Trocheck in the third period at Madison Square Garden in New York, September 25, 2025. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like with the way we\u2019re constructed right now, there\u2019s definitely, there\u2019s definitely more balance. I think there\u2019s more balance on both sides of the puck.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s threats offensively, but also there\u2019s more conscientious play with how the lineup is constructed.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Laba took a puck to the face against Minnesota, the Rangers rookie received five stitches on the outside of his mouth and three more on the inside. <\/p>\n
He came back almost immediately after wearing a full face shield, barely missing a single shift before finishing out the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Neither Matt Rempe nor Vincent Trocheck accompanied the Rangers on this four-game swing out to Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10707,9,11,10,541,539,319,11920],"class_list":["post-16976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-matt-rempe","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vincent-trocheck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}