Scuffling Rangers turn to kids in search of lineup punch

The Kids are coming to St.Louis.Rookies Gabe Perreault and Brennan Othmann were recalled from AHL Hartford on Wednesday and will presumably be in the lineup Thursday night against the Blues, after the Rangers hit a new low on the season following their seventh shutout loss in their 35th game.

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.In desperate need of a scoring jolt, the Blueshirts are turning to two of their key prospects to help provide it.Perreault has had a reasonable case for another look for almost a month now.Othmann is finally starting to score after a slow start to the season, which also included hearing his name in trade chatter.At this point, the Rangers had nothing to lose.They’ve lost three games to three different teams sitting in last place.

Their 2.51 goals-per-game average is ranked 30th in the NHL.They woke up Wednesday morning and boarded the team plane to St.

Louis as the second-to-last-place team in the Metropolitan Division.The halfway point of the 2025-26 campaign is steadily approaching.This is what the Rangers are.“We’re not bearing down and the other teams are,” captain J.T.

Miller said after the Rangers suffered their league-leading 10th loss on home ice.“We’re kind of stuck.

Win three, lose a couple.We are where we are.

It’s frustrating.”Perreault got a run of three games on the top line with Miller and Mika Zibanejad in November, but the 20-year-old didn’t exactly seize it with one assist and two shots on goal.Leading up to that recall, Perreault had registered a four-game goal streak as part of eight total points over that span.The No.

23 pick in the 2023 draft has since posted five goals and seven points in his last 11 games for a struggling Wolf Pack team.Just 10 days after Sportsnet first reported that Othmann was available and drawing interest, the Rangers put the 22-year-old in the lineup Oct.26 in ...