his scary injury in the first period<\/a> Monday at Madison Square Garden that left him writhing in pain before he had to be helped off the ice.<\/p>\nIn the immediate aftermath of the injury, it was certainly reasonable to fear the goalie might be out indefinitely.<\/p>\n
But relief regarding Shesterkin\u2019s status was doused by the fact that Fox, after just three games back from a shoulder injury that kept him out for 14 games, would be out at least 10 games and 24 days, this time with a lower-body injury, a source said. The earliest Fox can return is Jan. 31 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Fox had sparked what\u2019s been an inconsistent power play for the Rangers, as the defenseman helped the unit go 5-for-8 in his three games back from the shoulder injury, including the team\u2019s only two goals on Monday night.<\/p>\n
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Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin is helped off the ice by a trainer and New York Rangers defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov after falling back on his leg. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n
But Fox didn\u2019t play in the brief overtime session before Utah scored the game-winner, which came against Jonathan Quick, who replaced Shesterkin.<\/p>\n
Without Shesterkin and Fox, the Rangers announced Tuesday that goalie Spencer Martin and defenseman Scott Morrow had been recalled from Hartford of the AHL.<\/p>\n
Shesterkin is in the first year of the massive eight-year, $92 million contract extension he signed a year ago and an extended absence by the 30-year-old would likely have been devastating to a Rangers team that is already near the bottom of the Eastern Conference and has lost 10 of its last 15 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are certain guys that drive your team and he\u2019s one of them for us,\u201d Mike Sullivan said of Shesterkin following Monday\u2019s game. \u201cHe\u2019s an elite player at his position. I think he\u2019s one of the very best in the game. Those types of players are difficult to replace.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin lays on the ice after falling back on his leg in the first period against the Mammoth. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n
There is confidence Quick can still give them a chance to win, but he turns 40 next month and Shesterkin is having another standout season after his performance slipped last year following the extension.<\/p>\n
Shesterkin has played at least 53 games in each of the previous four seasons and was a main reason why the Rangers have remained at least in the playoff conversations in spite of their scoring issues.<\/p>\n
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But even with Shesterkin in good form, the Rangers haven\u2019t shown many signs of getting on a roll.<\/p>\n
Entering Tuesday, only three teams in the Eastern Conference had fewer points than the Rangers and the Rangers had three games in hand on all of them.<\/p>\n
And the injury bug that\u2019s plagued them throughout the year hasn\u2019t slowed.<\/p>\n
Fox is integral to not just the power play, but his chemistry with Vladislav Gavrikov was expected to be another key to the team\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
Now, Fox is out again, joining not only Shesterkin, but J.T. Miller, who is out with an upper-body injury \u2014 although the captain was a full participant in Monday\u2019s optional skate and appears to be close to returning \u2014 while Noah Laba is sidelined with an upper-body injury and Adam Edstrom and Conor Sheary are dealing with lower-body injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even on a day the Rangers got some positive injury news, they were blindsided by more bad luck.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[540,3518,9,11,10,541,539,1558,319],"class_list":["post-92107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adam-fox","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92107","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=92107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}