I dont get why the Rangers keep benching Matt Rempe

I am looking at head coach Peter Laviolette’s lineup card for Monday’s Garden match against the Red Wings, and I have become 12-year-old Josh Baskin at the meeting in which a line of robot-transformer toys are under discussion.I don’t get it.I don’t get it.I don’t get why Big Matt Rempe is a healthy scratch for this game after getting seven shifts worth a sum of 3:40 in Saturday night’s 6-5 OT defeat to Utah after having been scratched for last Wednesday’s opener in Pittsburgh.I don’t get it.I don’t get this at all.Listen, this is no disrespect directed at Jonny Brodzinski, who replaced Rempe in Games 1 and 3, or perhaps it is more accurate to suggest Rempe replaced Brodzinski for the home opener.Brodzinski is one of the best 750 hockey players in the world.

He had an excellent camp.But let me ask you: Which of these two players would present more of a threat to the Florida Panthers in the conference finals, or to the 2025 version of the Florida Panthers, because there’s always a bigger, stronger, more physical opponent under the rainbow?Which of these two players has the potential to become a weapon in the spring?Does it always have to be about winning the next game instead of using the regular season as a runway for the playoffs?Doesn’t Laviolette believe this team is strong enough to withstand Rempe’s growing curve?The Rangers, by the way, down the stretch last season while battling for the Presidents’ Trophy the head coach and the team coveted, were 14-2-1 with Rempe in the lineup.What changed?I have visited the Zoltar machine.I don’t get it.Saturday night on his fourth shift, Rempe went to the front and set a Jack and the Beanstalk-type screen on Connor Ingram that allowed Victor Mancini to beat the blinded netminder from the right point at 4:54 of the second.But the apparent goal was immediately waved off because Rempe’s heels were apparently in the crease, a goaltender interference judgement that was marginal enough for Laviolet...