
Matt Rempe starting to show he’s more than just a Rangers’ enforcer
NY Post
It was only a three-second glimpse, but Matt Rempe, finally, showcased offensive strides. The ones he started talking about in the preseason — after a summer’s worth of work — and kept doubling down on, even when he fluctuated in and out of the Rangers lineup and shuttled back and forth to AHL Hartford.
The ones that, over time, will help him morph into more than a physical fourth-line forward.
In the early minutes of the third period Tuesday, Rempe found space alongside Adam Edstrom on a rush, collected a pass and flipped the puck into the Senators net with his backhand moments later, giving the Rangers a three-goal lead. It marked just the third goal of Rempe’s career and first of the campaign.
As a winger with a hulking 6-foot-8 ½ frame, his job description doesn’t typically include that. He’s far from a 20-goal scorer.
At this pace, he’s far from even being a five-goal one, too.
But Rempe still wants to change that.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












