{"id":495938,"date":"2026-01-06T07:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495938\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:04:14","slug":"igor-shesterkin-helped-off-the-ice-in-potential-rangers-injury-calamity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495938\/","title":{"rendered":"Igor Shesterkin helped off the ice in potential Rangers injury calamity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers rocky season may have gotten seriously worse Monday night, when Igor Shesterkin was knocked out of the game with an apparent left leg injury after he fell awkwardly as Utah\u2019s JJ Peterka charged towards him midway midway through the first period at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Shesterkin remained on the ice for several minutes in obvious pain while being attended to by a trainer.<\/p>\n<p>He got to his feet with chants of \u201cIgor\u201d rang through the Garden, but had to be assisted off the ice and replaced by backup Jonathan Quick.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46915352;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38104243\" width=\"867\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-york-rangers-goaltender-igor-118348149.jpg\" alt=\"New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin is helped off the ice by a trainer and defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov.\" class=\"wp-image-38104243\"  \/>Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin is helped off the ice by a trainer and New York Rangers defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38104246\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-york-rangers-goaltender-igor-118347503.jpg\" alt=\"New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin (31) reacting to being skated into by Utah Mammoth right wing JJ Peterka (77).\" class=\"wp-image-38104246\"  \/>Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin (31) reacts after being skated into by Utah Mammoth right wing JJ Peterka (77) during the first period. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old is in the midst of another standout season and has been a key reason why the Rangers aren\u2019t even in worse shape than they already are, tied for 13th in the Eastern Conference heading into Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers rocky season may have gotten seriously worse Monday night, when Igor Shesterkin was knocked out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[149242,1302,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-495938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-igor-shesterkin","9":"tag-new-york-rangers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115846883941770447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495938","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=495938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}