{"id":339810,"date":"2025-10-29T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339810\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:23:11","slug":"rangers-matt-rempe-out-long-term-vincent-trocheck-nearing-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339810\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Matt Rempe Out Long-Term, Vincent Trocheck Nearing Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Rangers enforcer Matt Rempe<\/a><\/strong> is going to be out \u201clonger-term\u201d after sustaining an upper-body injury in a fight with San Jose Sharks\u2019 winger Ryan Reaves<\/a><\/strong>, head coach Mike Sullivan<\/a><\/strong> told Vince Mercogliano of The Athletic<\/a>. Mercogliano later specified<\/a> that Rempe\u2019s injury isn\u2019t expected to be season-ending, but could span multiple weeks, if not a few months.<\/p>\n

Rempe was filling slightly larger shoes than last season through New York\u2019s first nine games. He notched one goal and seven penalty minutes, while averaging a career-high 9:48 in ice time each game. He also recorded 30 hits \u2013 putting him on pace to register over 220 hits across a full 82 games.<\/p>\n

New York awarded top prospect Brennan Othmann<\/a><\/strong> with his season debut in Rempe\u2019s absence. He recorded no points and a minus-one in the outing, and now could be headed for a healthy scratch in favor of Jonny Brodzinski<\/a><\/strong>, per Mercogliano<\/a>. Brodzinski has already played in two games this season, with no scoring and one shot on net.<\/p>\n

The Rangers shouldn\u2019t have to spar between depth wingers for too much longer. Top-six centerman Vincent Trocheck<\/a><\/strong> returned to skating on Monday, marking a big step in his return from an upper-body injury sustained on October 9th. Trocheck was placed on long-term injured reserve on October 11th, and won\u2019t be eligible to be activated until November 1st. The injury ended an ironman streak that spanned the last three seasons (and all but one game of 2021-22). Trocheck spent all three years of that streak with New York, racking up 200 points in 246 games over the stretch. That\u2019s the fourth-most of any Ranger since 2022. He even managed a career-year in that mix, posting a career-best 77 points in the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n

Trocheck should return to his second-line center role as soon as he\u2019s back from injury. He began the year between wingers Artemi Panarin<\/a><\/strong> and Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re<\/a><\/strong>, though New York has since broken up that duo in favor of icing Panarin with captain J.T. Miller<\/a><\/strong>. No matter who he\u2019s centering, Trocheck should find a quick path back to high-impact minutes within the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rangers enforcer Matt Rempe is going to be out \u201clonger-term\u201d after sustaining an upper-body injury in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":339811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[19176,137467,1302,293,62,67,132,68,80412],"class_list":{"0":"post-339810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-injury","9":"tag-matt-rempe","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115455315399105886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}