Matt Rempe has path back to the Rangers after disappointing start

If anything, it’s astir nan opportunity for Matt Rempe.

He’ll get nan crystal clip pinch AHL Hartford that he didn’t pinch nan Rangers — a small much thanp 10 mixed minutes done their opening 7 games, pinch Rempe a patient scratch successful 5 of them — arsenic early arsenic Friday night, erstwhile nan Wolf Pack play and Rempe, according to Peter Laviolette, will skate arsenic a center.

He was a scratch again during nan Rangers’ 3-1 loss to nan Panthers connected Thursday.

So nan Blueshirts opted to nonstop Rempe, who became a fan-favorite during nan last agelong of past play pinch his crushing hits, old-school fights and personality, to nan AHL successful hopes of sparking further improvement pinch nan other minutes.

“He’s a young player,” Laviolette said aft believe Friday. “It’s for illustration Zac [Jones], it’s for illustration [Victor] Mancini. They’re young players. They tin perpetually build their crippled and get better. [Rempe] tin get amended astatine wall play and getting retired of nan area and get amended astatine making that adjacent play to get done nan neutral zone, nan violative area portion of nan game, attraction to defense — I judge he’s playing halfway (Friday), truthful he’s gonna find himself down debased successful D-zone coverage. 

“All these things tin thief him go a amended player.”

Rempe hadn’t been successful nan lineup since nan Rangers’ Oct. 19 crippled against nan Maple Leafs, and moreover successful his 2 cameos this twelvemonth — pinch nan different crippled nan Blueshirts’ location opener against nan Utah Hockey Club — he logged conscionable 3:40 and 7:37 of crystal time, respectively.

Last season, he made his NHL debut successful February and instantly added a jolt to nan Rangers’ lineup, moreover adding his second-career extremity during nan playoff opener, earlier his crystal clip dwindled importantly — and past vanished altogether successful games against nan Hurricanes and Panthers, erstwhile Laviolette made him a patient scratch astatine times.

But Rempe impressed pinch his offseason activity — which included training pinch top-line winger Chris Kreider — during nan Rangers’ camp, but eventually, Rempe mislaid his spot connected nan 4th statement pinch Adam Edström’s emergence.

Jimmy Vesey’s eventual return erstwhile nan Blueshirts activate him from semipermanent injured reserve would’ve only added different furniture to nan lineup crunch, too, pinch Sam Carrick and Jonny Brodzinski holding nan different 2 spots connected nan Rangers’ 4th statement astatine nan moment.

“It tin beryllium a changeable to nan ego for sure,” Carrick, who said he knowledgeable what Rempe will now spell done earlier successful his career, told The Post, “but I deliberation you gotta look astatine nan positives, which is, ‘Hey, he’s gonna spell down there. He’s gonna play a ton.’

“Lots of minutes. Lots of opportunities to get better. When he does get called up, which will beryllium whenever immoderate point, he’ll beryllium a amended subordinate for it because he’s played successful these large minutes.”