{"id":881968,"date":"2026-10-14T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881968\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:12:09","slug":"matt-rempe-makes-impact-and-gets-in-fight-in-return-to-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881968\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Rempe makes ‘impact’ and gets in fight in return to lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Rempe was back in the Rangers lineup for their 4-1 win over the Lightning<\/a> on Tuesday night, after the 6-foot-9 forward served as a healthy scratch in six straight games<\/a> following the season-opening loss in Boston.<\/p>\n

Replacing Jaroslav Chmelar on the right wing of the fourth line, Rempe and the rest of his linemates saw a limited opportunity because head coach Mike Sullivan cut his bench down late in the game.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old still managed to drop the gloves with the Lightning\u2019s Jeff Viel.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe obviously had a solid game for us,\u201d Sullivan said of Rempe (3:43 ice time) after the Blueshirts remained undefeated on home ice. \u201cHe didn\u2019t get a whole lot of minutes. Our fourth line didn\u2019t get a lot of minutes tonight. It was the nature of how the game evolved. My intention going into the game was to get them more minutes than they did. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s something that we\u2019re going to look to do on a regular, consistent basis. It was just how the game evolved and looking for certain matchups.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou sprinkle in some of the power plays and the penalty kills and defending the lead down the stretch. There were a lot of factors for that reason, but in the short minutes that Remps played, he made an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MattMatt Rempe (right) fights Jeffrey Viel during the first period of the Rangers\u2019 4-1 win over the Canucks on Oct. 13, 2026 at Madison Square Garden. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Sullivan has indicated that dressing Chmelar or Rempe would be a game-to-game decision, but the former had gotten a stretch of games amid the Rangers\u2019 5-1 run after their shutout loss in Boston.<\/p>\n

Still, Chmelar was part of the dominant victory over the Lightning in their home opener.<\/p>\n

Rempe, who missed most of last season due to two thumb surgeries, would have to pass through waivers in order to be assigned to Hartford. The Rangers likely don\u2019t want him to sit for too long, but Sullivan has also claimed the personnel switch would be based on opponent matchups as well.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

After his first official game back on Sept. 29, Rempe said his thumb felt 100 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lot of fun,\u201d Rempe told The Post before he watched Igor Shesterkin\u2019s season-ending injury from the press box in Washington. \u201cObviously, not the greatest result in the game, but I felt good. I felt good. Seeing good. Physically, felt strong. Felt like myself again. So I was happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

With only one goal through his first eight games <\/a>as a Ranger, Pavel Dorofeyev was asked if he was feeling pressure to contribute more.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo, not really,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not focused on that stuff at all. Just trying to be myself and trying to help the team win the games. Sometimes you just have to play another way. It\u2019s not always [about] the goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan has opted to swap Dorofeyev with Gabe Perreault on the top power-play unit when the veteran head coach feels the group needs a boost. <\/p>\n

After doing so against Vancouver, Sullivan did it again Tuesday night against the Lightning.<\/p>\n

The Rangers power play wasn\u2019t able to convert on any of their four opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Rangers are scheduled to practice Wednesday before they return to game action in Newark on Thursday against the Devils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Rempe was back in the Rangers lineup for their 4-1 win over the Lightning on Tuesday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[110483,4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-881968","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\/881968","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=881968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}