New York Rangers provide detrimental injury update as star defenseman Adam Fox lands on LTIR

Just moments ago the New York Rangers provided a very unfortunate injury update, the one that makes you reread it twice. Vince Z. Mercogliano reported Adam Fox going on LTIR with a lower-body issue, per a league source.

Along with this he also confirmed the devastating outcome of Igor Shesterkin's injury from Monday night.

Shesterkin's injury started Monday night against the Utah Mammoth when J.J. Peterka drove the crease and the goalie couldn't put weight on his left leg.

Fox being in this conversation again is the gut punch. He had just returned on Wednesday after missing time from the Tampa Bay Lightning game, where Brandon Hagel's hit forced him out.

That's what makes «lower-body» so jarring, because it sounds like a separate issue from the shoulder problem that parked him on LTIR earlier. The Rangers have not laid out details publicly yet, so this is still a developing picture.

LTIR is not a simple day-to-day tag. A player must miss at least 10 games and 24 calendar days to qualify, and the team can exceed the cap by an amount tied to that player's cap hit, with the relief calculated off the club's cap position at placement.

There's also a new layer coming with the updated CBA framework, with clearer distinctions being introduced around how LTIR relief interacts between regular-season and playoff accounting, plus discussion of «season-ending» designations that can affect return eligibility.

Cap-wise, his $9.5 million hit matters, but it's not free money, it's a tool you can burn fast if you're forced into emergency call-ups.

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