{"id":351536,"date":"2025-12-16T06:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351536\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:07:07","slug":"latest-on-matt-rempe-mika-zibanejad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351536\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Matt Rempe, Mika Zibanejad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Rangers activated forward Matt Rempe<\/a> off of long-term injured reserve today, according to the New York Post\u2019s Mollie Walker<\/a>. Per Walker, head coach Mike Sullivan said that Rempe would be a game-time decision for the team\u2019s game tonight against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n

Rempe has been out since Oct. 23 with an upper-body injury, one he suffered during an early-season contest against the San Jose Sharks. The 23-year-old has missed 18 straight games due to the injury.<\/p>\n

Rempe had one goal for one point through nine games played in 2025-26 before his injury, and was playing a limited role. Sullivan had been deploying Rempe as a fourth-line grinder, giving him just under 10 minutes of ice time per game. Rempe also got a look as a net-front player on the Rangers\u2019 second power play unit, but was taken off and did not receive any power play time in the final three games he played before his injury.<\/p>\n

Getting Rempe back from injured reserve will provide the Rangers with an added level of physicality for their bottom-six. While Jaroslav Chmelar<\/a> is big and physical as well, few in the NHL are as physically imposing as Rempe, who stands 6\u20199\u2033, 261 pounds. Rempe is under contract through the end of next season at a one-way, $975K rate, and will be an RFA with arbitration rights once his deal expires, unless the team elects to extend him before that point.<\/p>\n

Shifting gears to a Rangers forward with significantly more experience and a significantly higher cap hit, Mika Zibanejad<\/a> will not play tonight against the Ducks as he missed a team meeting, and will therefore be a healthy scratch. (per The Athletic\u2019s Vince Z. Mercogliano<\/a>) While Sullivan did acknowledge that \u201cthere are logistical challenges the city presents\u201d\u00a0 that contributed to Zibanejad\u2019s mistake, he emphasized the importance of maintaining team rules.<\/p>\n

Zibanejad, 32, is one of the Rangers\u2019 key veteran players. With nearly 1,000 games played to his name, Zibanejad has been a steady top-six center with sporadic periods of star-level play in New York. While his production and overall impact isn\u2019t quite where it was during his peak as a Ranger, Zibanejad still has 25 points in 33 games this season.<\/p>\n

Without Zibanejad tonight, the Rangers will shift J.T. Miller<\/a> back to the center position. Miller played right wing during the team\u2019s overtime victory against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Rangers activated forward Matt Rempe off of long-term injured reserve today, according to the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[110483,11558,4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-351536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-matt-rempe","tag-mika-zibanejad","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351536","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=351536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}