{"id":69590,"date":"2025-12-13T05:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69590\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T05:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:19:06","slug":"matt-rempe-getting-close-to-long-awaited-rangers-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69590\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Rempe &#8216;getting close&#8217; to long-awaited Rangers return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Rempe <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/09\/sports\/matt-rempe-nears-rangers-return-after-lengthy-injury-from-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continues to gradually fight his way back<\/a> to the Rangers\u2019 lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-9 slugger shed the red noncontact jersey and was a full participant in practice Friday for the first time since Oct. 23, when he was injured in a bout with San Jose enforcer Ryan Reaves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will not play tomorrow,\u201d Rangers coach Mike Sullivan said, referring to Saturday\u2019s game against the Canadiens at the Garden. \u201cHe was in full contact today. Given the time frame that he\u2019s been out, we think it\u2019s important that he gets a couple of practices under his belt in a full capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll monitor as he goes, but he\u2019s getting close.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After practice, Rempe was seen giving fighting tips on the ice to teammates Noah Laba and Matthew Robertson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37918699\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251002_RangersDevils_CS002.jpg\" alt=\"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. \" class=\"wp-image-37918699\"  \/>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<p>Injured defenseman Adam Fox (upper body) skated on his own before the session. The one-time Norris Trophy winner has been sidelined since Nov. 29 and was placed on long-term injured reserve. <\/p>\n<p>Fox has missed five of the minimum 10 games required for a stint on LTIR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan also is slated to coach Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan. <\/p>\n<p>He said he\u2019s in regular contact with general manager Bill Guerin about the American roster, which is expected to be revealed in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the expert take on the Blueshirts\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Rangers, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Guerin, also the GM of the Wild, was in attendance at the Garden last weekend for the Blueshirts\u2019 games against the Avalanche and the Golden Knights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talk to Bill a fair amount. We\u2019ve had a number of calls throughout the whole season,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cWe had a Zoom call a week ago with the whole group. So there\u2019s been a fair amount of communication throughout the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all acknowledge the uniqueness of it, and then we try to put a process in place that is objective as it can possibly be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Rempe continues to gradually fight his way back to the Rangers\u2019 lineup.\u00a0 The 6-foot-9 slugger shed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10707,9,11,10,541,539,319],"class_list":["post-69590","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69590","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=69590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}