The Rangers put Adam Fox on injured reserve Friday after the 23-year-old defenseman sustained an undisclosed upper-body harm within the sport in opposition to the Blue Jackets on Thursday night time.
Fox, who was initially labeled as “day-to-day,” will miss at the least the subsequent three video games and probably should pull out of All-Star weekend. He can be eligible to return as quickly as Feb. 15, when the Rangers host the Bruins.
There may be by no means an excellent time to lose your No. 1 defenseman, however the Rangers could have a two-week layoff after their Feb. 1 matchup with the Panthers, so Fox could have ample time to get again to one hundred pc and relaxation up for the rest of the season.
“Yeah, I imply, if it’s going to occur, it’s good timing,” head coach Gerard Gallant mentioned earlier than the Rangers misplaced to the Wild, 3-2, on Friday night time. “We absolutely anticipate he’ll be again proper after the break.”
After awkwardly absorbing a success from Columbus’ Vladislav Gavrikov within the third interval of the Rangers’ eventual 5-3 loss on Thursday, Fox went to the locker room after only one shift and didn’t return. After the sport, Gallant didn’t sound overly involved with the severity of Fox’s harm, however the Rangers would probably err on the aspect of warning on the subject of their reigning Norris Trophy-winning defenseman.
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With Fox unavailable, Nils Lundkvist was recalled to the lively roster, however Zac Jones drew into the lineup as an alternative. Jones was paired with Libor Hajek, whereas Braden Schneider changed Fox on the suitable aspect of Ryan Lindgren on Friday.
The Rangers additionally recalled ahead Tim Gettinger and reassigned Morgan Barron to the taxi squad.
Igor Shesterkin turned apart 31 of the 34 pictures he confronted within the loss.
Schneider’s NHL profession is simply eight video games outdated, however Gallant has already likened the 20-year-old defenseman to a veteran of 9 seasons.
That veteran occurs to be his Rangers teammate, Jacob Trouba, who's within the midst of his simplest season in New York. The resemblance is actually there, with Trouba standing simply an inch taller and some kilos heavier than Schneider. However it’s their shared bulldozing type of play that has primarily drawn comparisons between the 2.
“I feel that might be an ideal approach to put it,” Schneider mentioned of Gallant calling him a mini Trouba. “I feel we now have loads of similarities to our video games, and he’s a man that I wish to mannequin elements of my sport after. It’s superior that I get to look at and study firsthand every sport.”
Even Trouba has acknowledged the similarities, which additionally prompted him to joke about the potential for Schneider ultimately taking his job. For now, the Rangers can reap the advantages of getting each Trouba and Schneider.
Schneider, whom the Rangers chosen nineteenth total within the 2020 draft after buying and selling up three spots for him, has seemed extremely regular in a small pattern measurement of video games.
Skating within the final eight video games, together with Friday’s matchup with the Wild, Schneider mentioned he seems like he’s starting to settle in. He has logged essentially the most minutes subsequent to Patrik Nemeth, who's at the moment out for private causes, and Hajek.
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