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Scott Morrow skates with the puck while defended by Andrew Copp during the first period of the Rangers\u2019 loss to the Red Wings on Nov. 16, 2025. John Jones-Imagn Images<\/p>\nLAS VEGAS \u2014 The recalling of Scott Morrow by the Rangers amid uncertainty surrounding Will Borgen\u2019s status provided some insight into the team\u2019s approach to configuring the defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the Rangers prepared to face the Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena, Borgen, who missed the previous two games with an upper-body injury, was a game-time decision once again Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Morrow made his season debut Sunday night against the Red Wings and was prepared to continue in Borgen\u2019s stead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been really excited about Scotty\u2019s game,\u201d head coach Mike Sullivan said after the morning skate on Tuesday. \u201cI think he\u2019s a good, solid two-way defenseman. I think he\u2019s a good puck mover, in particular. Given the fact that we have a right-handed shot that was questionable [Borgen], both [assistant coach David Quinn] and I prefer to have defensemen on their strong side, for a lot of reasons. We could talk for three days on it. The other aspect of it is some of our lefties just aren\u2019t comfortable playing the offside \u2026 it\u2019s very different. We didn\u2019t want to put any of the players in difficult circumstances. So that was part of the decision for Scotty to get called up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re also excited about his game and potentially where it could go. He\u2019s a really good puck mover. We think he has decent instincts offensively. He can help us with a transition game. He\u2019s pretty good along the offensive blue line. He has good size. I think, positionally, there\u2019s an opportunity for growth there and I think we\u2019ve got a chance to help him. Physically, I think he\u2019s capable of playing at this level. He\u2019s hockey strong, and he has good size.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scott Morrow skates with the puck while defended by Andrew Copp during the first period of the Rangers\u2019 loss to the Red Wings on Nov. 16, 2025. John Jones-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are all the things that attracted us to him in the first place. We think potentially he has the ability to be an impact player at this level at some point in time. When that happens, I think it depends on him and it depends on the situation. He\u2019ll get an opportunity to play and has got an opportunity to play. We\u2019ll see where it goes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Noting that it\u2019s been a tough stretch for the Hartford Wolf Pack, which snapped a seven-game winless streak with an overtime victory over Springfield on Tuesday afternoon, Morrow said he\u2019s felt confident about his individual game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old has just one goal and one assist through 11 games, but Morrow believes the bounces will eventually go his way if he sticks with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before he made his Rangers debut on Sunday, Morrow\u2019s last NHL appearance came with the Hurricanes in last season\u2019s Eastern Conference final against the eventual Stanley Cup champions, the Panthers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cI definitely learned a ton in that experience,\u201d he said. \u201cYou really can\u2019t get too high or too low. I thought it was a little bit of an emotional roller coaster, not playing the first few rounds, getting thrown in there. Things don\u2019t go my way Game 1 and it\u2019s kind of back and forth a little bit. No matter how things go here, just know that you got to focus on what\u2019s in front of you.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter how well you played last game, it doesn\u2019t matter. No matter how poorly you played and if you\u2019re getting another opportunity, then it doesn\u2019t matter. Just take it one day at a time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Rangers\u2019 defenseman Will Borgen is still battling an injury. AP<\/p>\n
Sunday counted as Morrow\u2019s 17th regular-season contest of his NHL career. He logged just 9:56 of ice time in the 2-1 loss to Detroit, which was largely due to the Rangers\u2019 surplus of shorthanded ice time in the third period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel a lot more ready for the NHL than I have, you know, at any point last year,\u201d Morrow said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 The recalling of Scott Morrow by the Rangers amid uncertainty surrounding Will Borgen\u2019s status provided…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1302,293,62,67,132,68,3116],"class_list":{"0":"post-388965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-new-york-rangers","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-vegas-golden-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115574102977189813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388965","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=388965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}