Gabe Perreault notches first NHL point in season…
As the Rangers picked up their first win at Madison Square Garden, Gabe Perreault made his season debut Monday evening against the Predators.
The Rangers recalled Perreault from Hartford for the first time this season on Sunday in the aftermath of the staff’s seventh straight loss on home ice.
Perreault had began to gain some momentum for the Wolf Pack, posting a four-game purpose streak and eight complete factors over that span.
“I think I’ve been playing well,” the 20-year-old said after morning skate on Monday. “I think it was really good for me to go down there [to Hartford], play a lot of minutes, work on little things I needed to work on. And, you know, hopefully it’ll translate.”
Perreault skated on the left wing of the Rangers top line next to Mika Zibanejad and J.T. Miller in the 6-3 win over Nashville.
Gabe Perreault skates with the puck during the Rangers’ over the Predators on Nov. 10. Robert Sabo for the NY Post
Additionally, head coach Mike Sullivan put Perreault on the second power-play unit with Alexis Lafrenière, Vincent Trocheck, Taylor Raddysh and Braden Schneider.
It was there that Perreault notched his first NHL point in the shape of an help on Lafrenière’s second-period power-play purpose Monday evening.
“I just think it makes us deeper,” Sullivan said of Perreault’s addition. “It offers us more steadiness. The thought course of with Gabe, he’s had a fairly respectable start, particularly most just lately in Hartford. He’s an offensive participant that has actually good instincts on that aspect of the puck. So our intention is to attempt to set him up for success so he can play to his strengths. So in other phrases, I don’t know that it makes a complete lot of sense to call a participant up like that and put him in a backside six function.
“I think he’s a guy that potentially could help us, if we can get the best version of him. So it’s a great opportunity for him. We’re excited to watch him.”
Gabe Perreault fights for possession during the Rangers’ Nov. 10 win against the Predators. Imagn Images
After lacking a couple of video games for the Wolf Pack this past weekend for what was described as an upper-body injury, Perreault said it was “just a precautionary thing.”
He assured he was good to go bodily.
Perreault turned the fifth rookie to swimsuit up for the Rangers this season, following Noah Laba, Matthew Robertson, Brennan Othmann and Jaroslav Chmelar.
“We want to try to put players in positions to succeed,” Sullivan said. “Ideally, we have been making an attempt to give Gabe some time down there to construct and develop his recreation, bodily and in any other case, in the hopes that when he does get called to New York, he has the flexibility to achieve success. I clearly talked to Chris [Drury] after the sport the other evening [and] yesterday when the choice was made.
“A lot of it’s based on Gabe’s own performance down there, and what we think the needs of the Rangers are here at this particular point in time.”
Matt Rempe, who has been nursing an upper-body injury, was moved from injured reserve to long-term injured reserve on Monday.
Monday counted as the eighth straight recreation Rempe has missed since struggling an obvious injury in his battle with Sharks enforcer Ryan Reaves on Oct. 23.
On LTIR, Rempe is required to miss at least 10 video games and 24 days.
Since the timeline is retroactive to the date of the injury, the earliest Rempe might return is after the Red Wings recreation Nov. 16.
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