He said he felt \u201ca little helpless\u201d when the Blueshirts were losing and the retool was announced as someone who wasn\u2019t able to contribute, with Fox a key organizational piece throughout the last seven seasons and someone who\u2019s under contract through the 2028-29 season.<\/p>\n
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Adam Fox looks to make a pass during the Rangers\u2019 3-2 overtime loss to the Flyers at the Garden on Feb. 26, 2026. Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
When asked about the future, though, Fox opted to focus on this season instead\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and defer those conversations to after the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I\u2019m just trying to focus on this year right now and play each game,\u201d Fox said. \u201cThat\u2019s really all I can do right now, could control \u2014 is I was just trying to work to get back and help the team finish strong. So I think that\u2019s where my head\u2019s at. \u2026 I think that\u2019s a conversation when we\u2019re done playing games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox, a Long Island native and a former Norris Trophy winner, has collected 28 points in 31 games this season, but he has played just four times since Nov. 29 because of a shoulder injury and then the lower-body one sustained last month three games after initially returning. <\/p>\n
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This has marked the first season of his career with an extended absence.<\/p>\n
And as someone who has anchored Eastern Conference finals runs with the Rangers and established himself as one of the top power-play defensemen in the league, he\u2019d be set to remain a cornerstone into the future given his contract situation. <\/p>\n
The Blueshirts inked Vladislav Gavrikov to a seven-year deal last offseason to be his blueline partner, too.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t mean the present has been easy for Fox to handle, though\u00a0\u2014\u00a0with the injury and the change of direction by the franchise stacking together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, we\u2019re competitive people in here,\u201d Fox said. \u201cWe want to win, and you lose a guy like [Artemi Panarin] and you don\u2019t know what else could happen obviously. We put ourselves in this position, and that\u2019s what happens. Yeah, it obviously, you know, sucks, when something like that happens.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Fox doesn\u2019t want to talk about his future with the Rangers yet. Fox, who returned to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[35717,4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-493981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-fox","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493981","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=493981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}