The New York Rangers are looking to build off a season that saw them reach the Stanley Cup Final, but the Blueshirts have already been faced with bad news in form of an injury to center Derek Stepan.
With the start of the 2014-15 campaign just a couple weeks away, the team announced that its top pivot has suffered a fractured fibula, according to the team's official Twitter account:
Per Larry Brooks of the New York Post, the injury occurred during a preseason conditioning test on Wednesday:
Rangers coach Alain Vigneault also discussed the injury, via Andrew Gross of The Record and Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News:
The Rangers later announced that Stepan will miss four-to-six weeks:
The 24-year-old Minnesota native was second on the team in scoring last season with 57 points. He was also named to the U.S. Olympic team and was penciled in to be the Rangers' top-line center in 2014-15.
According to Craig Custance of ESPN The Magazine, New York was already lacking depth at center even before Stepan went down:
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