{"id":479507,"date":"2025-12-30T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:12:10","slug":"exclusive-rangers-matt-rempe-looking-to-repay-awesome-trust-from-mike-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479507\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Rangers&#8217; Matt Rempe looking to repay &#8216;awesome&#8217; trust from Mike Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. \u2014 Before Matt Rempe <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/16\/sports\/matt-rempe-broke-thumb-underwent-surgery-after-fight-with-sharks-ryan-reaves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">underwent surgery to repair a broken thumb <\/a>and missed 24 consecutive games, the 6-foot-9 forward was averaging 10:59 of ice time through eight games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was well over two minutes more than what he averaged through 42 games last season. It\u2019s almost double his average during his 17-game rookie season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rempe never quite endeared himself to the previous coaching staff, which probably had something to do with his litany of suspensions and the way he has been closely officiated since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New head coach Mike Sullivan, however, seemed taken with the towering fourth-liner almost immediately. Entrusting Rempe with more ice time and a net-front role on the second power-play unit, Sullivan gave the 23-year-old more of a chance than ex-bench boss Peter Laviolette ever did through his first 59 career NHL games.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. \u2014 Before Matt Rempe underwent surgery to repair a broken thumb and missed 24 consecutive games,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[137467,1302,293,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-479507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-matt-rempe","9":"tag-new-york-rangers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115807279131179588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479507","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=479507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}