After the protection corps misplaced Ryan Lindgren for a number of weeks, the Rangers ahead group has taken the most recent hit.
Jimmy Vesey is anticipated to overlook a number of weeks with a lower-body damage he sustained throughout follow on Sunday, head coach Peter Laviolette introduced on Monday earlier than the Blueshirts misplaced their fourth exhibition sport of the preseason, 3-1, to the Devils on the Prudential Middle.
Dropping Vesey creates a gap on the fourth line, which has additionally featured Matt Rempe, Adam Edstrom, Sam Carrick and Jonny Brodzinski all through this coaching camp.
Of the aforementioned gamers, solely Edstrom suited up Monday night time in Newark.
“That’s what coaching camp’s about,” Laviolette mentioned after Monday’s follow with the non-game group. “It’s a chance for guys to step up. I do suppose some guys have had good camps, and that’s the analysis course of. We’re nonetheless occurring. We’ve nonetheless acquired three [preseason] video games left, and so these evaluations are nonetheless happening.”
Vesey missed the final 4 video games of the Rangers playoff run final season, after struggling a separated shoulder on a success from Panthers ahead Ryan Lomberg.
Over his final two seasons with the Rangers, Vesey has totaled 24 objectives and 27 assists in 161 contests.
The plan was for Jonathan Fast to get a full sport on Monday earlier than Igor Shesterkin performs in a majority of the ultimate two exhibition contests on Tuesday and Friday, Laviolette mentioned on Monday.
Fast completed with 25 saves on 28 photographs within the loss to the Devils.
The Rangers lineup Monday night time was extraordinarily prospect-heavy, contemplating the truth that a majority of the Devils varsity workforce is in Czechia for the NHL’s International Sequence.
Notables who suited up embody: Fast, Edstrom, Connor Mackey, Brennan Othmann, Brett Berard, Victor Mancini, Adam Sykora and Bryce McConnell-Barker.
“The primary interval, I believed we performed fairly good, we simply made a pair huge errors and allow them to behind for breakaways,” Laviolette mentioned. “Second interval, I didn’t like. I didn’t suppose we had been sharp in any respect. We had been gradual, we turned the puck over and didn’t make good selections. Thought we may’ve skated a little bit higher, competed a little bit bit higher.
“Addressed it going out into the third and the third interval I believed we pressed the entire approach and saved seeking to get into the sport. Lastly, acquired one on the board, however too little too late.”
Mackey, Anton Blidh and Adam Erne wore letters for the Rangers.
Blidh scored the Rangers’ lone aim of the sport off an extended rebound within the third interval.
As a way to fill out the lineup, the Rangers recalled Blake Hillman and Blade Jenkins from the Wolf Pack on skilled tryouts.
Ryder Korczak, who was harm for many of his time in Rangers coaching camp, skated in a yellow non-contact jersey on Monday in Hartford.
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