{"id":339890,"date":"2025-12-09T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/339890\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:22:08","slug":"matt-rempe-nears-rangers-return-after-lengthy-injury-from-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/339890\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Rempe nears Rangers return after lengthy injury from fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big man wearing red in December always is a popular figure in folklore at this time of year, and the Rangers had their own version to be excited about Tuesday in practice.<\/p>\n<p>Fan-favorite forward Matt Rempe returned to practice wearing a non-contact jersey for the first time since suffering what is believed to be a thumb injury in a fight against Sharks enforcer Ryan Reaves on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-9 winger was set to accompany the Rangers on their road trip for Wednesday\u2019s game against the Blackhawks in Chicago, and he could be cleared to practice with the team in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s skated a fair amount on his own with our skills coaches, and the next step is to get him on with the group in the team setting in a non-contact jersey. That\u2019s what he was (Tuesday), he participated like that,\u201d Rangers coach Mike Sullivan said after practice in Tarrytown. \u201cAnd then obviously the final step is to get him into game role scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.37449664;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37883841\" width=\"811\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/new-york-rangers-center-matt-114069313.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Rempe ie believed to have injured his thumb in this fight with Ryan Reaves on Oct. 23, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37883841\"  \/>Matt Rempe ie believed to have injured his thumb in this fight with Ryan Reaves on Oct. 23, 2025. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Rempe had one goal and seven penalty minutes in his first nine appearances this season, averaging 9:48 of ice-time per game. <\/p>\n<p>He had gained cult-like status while dressing for 59 games for the Blueshirts over the previous two seasons, accumulating 138 minutes in penalties.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Winger Adam Edstrom also remains sidelined for the Rangers after missing the past four games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The big man wearing red in December always is a popular figure in folklore at this time of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[110483,4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-339890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-matt-rempe","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}