Nobody Is Addicted To Getting Ejected From Hockey Games More Than Matt Rempe
The New York Rangers are at a point where the majority of their players have forgotten how to play hockey. Jacob Trouba was a disaster of a defenseman, so they shipped him off to Anaheim. Kaapo Kakko couldn't even develop a roll of film, so they shipped him off to Seattle. Mika Zibanejad might end the season at -100, and I'm sure Chris Drury would take a few rolls of clear tape from anybody in a trade but there aren't going to be any takers on that one. Igor Shesterkin held the Rangers hostage for a $92 million contract, and then turned into Ilya Bryzgalov.
Fact of the matter is that if the Rangers have forgotten how to play hockey, they might as well keep calling up a guy who never knew how to play it in the first place. Matt Rempe.
Heading into last night's game against Dallas, Matt Rempe had been tossed in 3 of his 21 career games played in the NHL. For the intellectually impaired out there, that means he gets ejected in one out of every seven games he plays. Last night he decided to boost those numbers a bit with a nice forearm shiver to the back of Miro Heiskanen's head directly into the boards.
22 games. 2 points. 4 ejections. 95 penalty minutes. The next game he plays, there's a good chance that he finds a way to have more penalty minutes than time-on-ice in his career.
I don't think people are fully comprehending what a generational run we're seeing out of this guy. This is as throwback as it gets. A guy who doesn't even pretend to play hockey. He doesn't even make an attempt to be a 4th liner who can grind out a few shifts and make a few contributions. He knows the only stat he's focused on is CTE. He gets out on the ice, does whatever he can to hand out a few brain injuries, and then has plenty of time to get the showers nice and warm for the fellas whenever the game is over.