Years with nary an injury problem. Now, the deluge.
The Hartford goaltending tandem will be wearing Blueshirts at the Garden for Thursday’s match against the Wild in the aftermath of Jonathan Quick joining Igor Shesterkin on the informal, “day-to-day list,” according to a knowledgeable source.
The Rangers summoned both 31-year-old veteran Louis Domingue — who’d backed up Quick the previous two games before he was returned to the Wolf Pack in a cap-saving measure — and 21-year-old Dylan Garand from AHL Hartford after Quick’s condition became known a day after his 5-3 victory over Detroit.
Domingue, a right-handed-catching netminder, had an NHL career regular-season record of 59-60-10 with a 3.04 GAA and a .905 save percentage, with Arizona, Tampa Bay, New Jersey, Vancouver, Calgary and Pittsburgh. He has not appeared in the NHL since the 2022 playoffs.
Garand, the fourth-round, 103rd overall selection of the 2020 draft, has gone 3-1-1 with a 2.63 GAA and .914 save percentage in five AHL starts following a very impressive camp. He played both Friday and Saturday while Domingue was on the Rangers roster.
Domingue, whom the Blueshirts signed as a free agent during the summer of 2022 — just months after the netminder had played against them in the first round of the playoffs as a replacement for the injured Tristan Jarry and Casey DeSmith — is 3-1-0 with a 1.75 GAA and a .934 save percentage for the Wolf Pack.
He and Garand were essentially alternating before the roster machinations.
Shesterkin practiced with “no limit,” in a lightly attended optional on Wednesday. The Blueshirts are acting with all appropriate caution with their franchise goaltender — who apparently experienced general soreness in the aftermath of the Nov. 2 match against Carolina — as they approach this. The same with Quick, who has been invaluable in the 9-2-1 getaway.
The Blueshirts for years had enjoyed remarkable fortune in regard to good health. But beginning with that 2-1 victory over the Canes that was in retrospect perhaps pyrrhic, the team has lost Adam Fox (leg) to LTIR, Filip Chytil (suspected concussion) to IR, and both Shesterkin (soreness) and Quick (upper body) are day-to-day.
Onward for the Rangers.
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