{"id":3509,"date":"2016-11-21T16:18:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2016-11-21T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:18:53","slug":"new-york-rangers-claim-matt-puempel-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/11\/21\/new-york-rangers-claim-matt-puempel-off-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Claim Matt Puempel Off Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday evening, the <strong>Ottawa Senators<\/strong> assigned forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/puempma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Puempel<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on waivers. Also occurring last night, in the <strong>New York Rangers<\/strong> versus <strong>Florida Panthers<\/strong> game, was the injury of Rangers forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zibanmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mika Zibanejad<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Zibanejad collided into the boards at full speed and ended up fracturing his fibula, which will now sideline him for six to eight weeks. The Rangers, now in need of a forward, claimed former Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/puempma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Puempel<\/a> off of waivers. Puempel will help add depth to the Rangers forward lines until the injured Zibanejad returns around New Years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Rangers claimed F Matt Puempel off of waivers from Ottawa. It will give them 13 healthy forwards on the NHL roster if he stays.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drosennhl\/status\/800750686770233344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season, Matt Puempel had 30 points in 34 <strong>American Hockey League<\/strong> games while playing for the Senators affiliate, the <strong>Binghamton Senators<\/strong>. \u00a0This season, Puempel got the call up to play at the <strong>National Hockey League<\/strong> level, but went pointless in 13 games played with the club. \u00a0The Senators were not impressed by Puempel&#8217;s play and in the end, placed him on the waiver wire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zibanmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mika Zibanejad<\/a> was traded by the Senators this summer to the Rangers in exchange for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brassde01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derick Brassard<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0In 19 games played for the Blueshirts this season, he has scored five goals and has added 10 assists. \u00a0The loss of Zibanejad certainly hurts the Rangers, but by claiming Puempel, they add depth and fill in the empty slot left by Zibanejad. \u00a0Puempel will most likely play a bottom six roll with the Rangers until the injured Mika Zibanejad returns.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/611669500\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.835017% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/611669500?et=_uJ_tJDKQ1t0fce8xwPjfA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=UnTWZ8eZjKMNOeN9KgROyiIBf2qwBYDJlv8ey7R0cZA=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"397\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday evening, the Ottawa Senators assigned forward Matt Puempel\u00a0on waivers. Also occurring last night, in the New York Rangers versus Florida Panthers game, was the injury of Rangers forward Mika Zibanejad. \u00a0Zibanejad collided into the boards at full speed and ended up fracturing his fibula, which will now sideline him for six to eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1187,"featured_media":3521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1479732180","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"New York Rangers claim Matt Puempeloff of waivers from the Ottawa Senators","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34,8],"tags":[37,915,371,48,38,70],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-news","category-senators","tag-hockey","tag-matt-puempel","tag-mika-zibanejad","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators"],"modified_by":"Nic Hendrickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}