Rangers injuries opening door for others to provide depth, fill void

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.TORONTO — The Rangers have had their depth tested early amid multiple injuries just six games into the 2025-26 season.With second-line center Vincent Trocheck on long-term injured reserve after suffering an upper-body injury, in addition to defenseman Carson Soucy’s injured reserve designation with his own upper-body injury, the Blueshirts were forced to make personnel changes to accommodate.Players like Matthew Robertson, Juuso Parssinen, Jonny Brodzinski and now rookie Scott Morrow have all been called upon to fill the voids.“It certainly shows us what we have and who’s capable of doing what, who can play up the lineup,” head coach Mike Sullivan said in front of a crowded Toronto media brigade ahead of the Rangers 2-1 overtime loss to Maple Leafs on Thursday night.

“Any time guys get injured, it’s going to provide opportunities for others.When you get in those situations as a team, in my experience being in this league as long as I have, is that every team tends to go through that.

Those opportunities, some players step up, and they take advantage, and that’s one avenue to push a way onto a roster, for example.I think that there’s opportunity that presents itself when teams go through a little bit of the injury bug, so to speak.“Guys will be asked to play more significant roles.

Now, it’s up to the players to perform for us.We get an opportunity to see guys participate in those roles to see what we have.”The decision to recall Morrow came in the wake of Will Borgen’s inability to practice on Wednesday due to a lower-body injury.

He was considered a game-time decision ahead of the Rangers’ matchup in Toronto, but Borgen ultimately dressed and played.Morrow wasn’t an option due to cap restraints when Soucy first went down.Putting Trocheck on LTIR, however, freed up the space to recall ...