Rangers place Adam Edstrom on long-term injured reserve
A young center is going to be out longer than expected.
According to multiple reports, the New York Rangers are going to be placing forward Adam Edstrom on long-term injured reserve.
The Rangers are placing Adam Edström on long-term injured reserve. His recovery is not progressing the way the team hoped.
Per Peter Baugh of The Athletic, Edstrom has not recovered as quickly as the Rangers had hoped. He hasn’t played since Nov. 29 due to a lower-body injury, forcing him to miss the team’s past four games. In his last appearance against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the 25-year-old played just 7:01 of ice time in a 4-1 defeat.
Per the league’s LTIR rules, Edstrom will not be eligible to play until the Rangers take on the New York Islanders in their first game after the Christmas Break on Dec. 27.
It isn’t known if this lower-body injury is related to the same ailment that kept him out for the last two months of the 2024-25 season. He was limited to just 51 games, in which the Karlstad, Sweden native scored five goals and four assists for nine points.
Edstrom had appeared in 24 of the Rangers’ first 27 games this season, being held out of the lineup as a healthy scratch a couple of times. He has posted two goals and two assists for four points, last finding the back of the net on Nov. 24 in a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues. He has a plus/minus of +5 while averaging 9:34 of ice time per game.
In 86 career NHL games, all with the Blueshirts, Edstrom has scored nine goals and six assists for 15 points.
The Rangers (15-12-4) currently sit seventh in the Metropolitan Division, but are just one point back of a Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Rangers are set to face the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.