Exclusive | Rangers Adam Fox feels fully healthy after knee injury hampered him in postseason

This offseason looked a little different for Adam Fox than the previous four.It wasn’t just because he walked down the aisle and married his Harvard sweetheart and women’s lacrosse counterpart, Tate Green, in July.The Rangers No.

1 defenseman wasn’t 100 percent healthy at the start of the summer, after aggravating a strained MCL in his right knee, originally sustained in November, in the first round of the playoffs.Only the start of his offseason, however, was affected.Players usually take around three weeks off at the conclusion of a season, but Fox was at the MSG Training Center rehabbing and doing things that would allow him to get back to full strength quicker.Once that was out of the way, Fox said he was able to do everything normally.He then turned his focus on the usual plan: Getting stronger and faster.

It all was a first for the 26-year-old Fox, who had never dealt with a major injury until his fifth year in the NHL.“It’s funny because I missed 10 games, but it feels like you’ve missed like 30 when you’re sitting out and everything,” Fox told The Post on Tuesday ahead of the Rangers exhibition game against the Islanders at Madison Square Garden.It was the second game for the Rangers, but first for the native of Jericho, N.Y.“I think when people get hurt, you maybe come back and you’re tentative.

I think it’s a normal reaction.I think overall, still, the year was good.

Obviously, now, that’s in the past and I feel healthy now.Not too worried about any of that stuff anymore.”Following a knee-on-knee collision with Hurricanes center Sebastian Aho on Nov.

4, which landed Fox on long-term injured reserve for 10 games, the star defenseman was forthcoming about his struggles to regain his feel for the game.Sign up for Larry Brooks' Inside the Rangers, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.

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