Report: Rangers place Adam Fox on injured reserve; expected back later in 2024-25

Credit: Apr 11, 2024; New York, New York, USA; New York Rangers defenseman Adam Fox (23) awaits a face-off against the Philadelphia Flyers during the third period at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Danny Wild-USA TODAY Sports

The New York Rangers will be without defenceman Adam Fox for the foreseeable future.

According to reports on Wednesday evening, the Rangers will be putting the blueliner on injured reserve. The club remain optimistic that he will be able to return for the final weeks of the regular season and into the Stanley Cup Playoffs, should the Rangers reach that point.

Adam Fox has been placed on IR with an upper-body injury.

*Expected back before the end of the season. https://t.co/Ur2RALdHsg

— Daily Faceoff – Fantasy (@DFOFantasy) February 26, 2025

Fox, 27, was forced to leave the Rangers’ game on Tuesday night against the New York Islanders early in the third period, and his absence is due to an upper body injury.

Adam Fox has now left the game. Looks like he popped his collarbone. Full play plus repley. #NYR pic.twitter.com/xfD3DjKg1q

— David 🏒 (@DaveyUpper) February 26, 2025

In a corresponding move, the Rangers have recalled defenceman Matthew Robertson from the AHL Hartford Wolf Pack.

Fox recently returned to the Rangers from a second-place finish with Team USA at the 4 Nations Face-Off before rejoining his New York teammates for three games, including two wins over the Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Rangers are entering a busy stretch of the season as well, playing 13 games over the next 23 days, all likely without a key defenceman in Fox, who has averaged 23:13 of ice time through 58 games this season. In 2024-25, he’s posted four goals and 48 points.

Robertson, 23, joins the Rangers having played 47 AHL games this season, netting a goal and 18 points for a Wolfpack team sitting seventh in the AHL’s eight-team Atlantic Division. Yet to make his NHL debut, Rangers selected the Edmonton, Alta. native in the second round, 49th overall, in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.

Sitting fifth in the Eastern Conference Metropolitan Division with 62 points after 58 games, the Rangers are eight points back of the New Jersey Devils for the final divisional playoff spot and two points behind the final Wild Card team, the Columbus Blue Jackets.

The Rangers host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday night and will look to make the playoffs for the fourth season in a row.