The New York Rangers have officially announced K'Andre Millers replacement
The New York Rangers have just officially announced who will replace defenseman K'Andre Miller after he sustained an upper-body injury and was placed on Injured Reserve.
The New York Rangers received some unfortunate news back on Wednesday, November 11th as their star defenseman K'Andre Miller was sidelined for the third period with an upper-body injury during the Rangers vs Sabres game.
Mollie Walker of the New York Post, was the first to notice that Miller was not on the Rangers bench, then the Rangers PR team on X later confirmed is injury.
K'Andre Miller is not on #NYR� bench
The official statement for the New York Rangers PR on x:
UPDATE: K'Andre Miller (upper body) will not return tonight.
There has been some speculation as to where and when the 24-year old sustained his injury but it's purely just speculation,
This hit from 6'6 Jordan Greenway on Miller seems to be his upper body injury. It happened midway through the 2nd period and Miller finished that period but didn't come out to start the 3rd period and was "will not return tonight (upper body)" #NYR K'Andre Miller has appeared in all the New York Rangers games thus far and has managed to put up 2 goals and 4 assist for a total of 6 points throughout 27 games.
who is K'Andre Miller's replacement, as he was placed on Injured Reserve?
Friday afternoon the New York Rangers have announced that Miller was placed on Injured Reserve(IR), right before the Rangers upcoming road trip.
K'Andre Miller (upper body) is on injured reserve, #NYR� say. He won't be making the start of the road trip, at least.
With that being said it has also been confirmed that 28-year old veteran defenseman Connor Mackey would be replacing Miller in the mean time.
D pairs at this afternoon's practice:
Lindgren - Fox
Mackey - Schneider
Jones - Mancini
Connor Mackey has only appeared in one game for the New York Rangers last season and went pointless during that game.
However, during his with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the AHL he has played 22 games and tallied 2 goals and 4 assist for a total of 6 points.
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