Rangers' Adam Fox will miss All-Star Game because of an injury

Adam Fox won’t be going to the NHL All-Star Game, the league announced Sunday. Fox, who is on injured reserve and has missed the last two games with an upper-body injury suffered in Thursday’s loss to Columbus, had been one of two Rangers — Chris Kreider was the other — selected to play in Saturday’s game in Las Vegas. He will be replaced by Capitals forward Evgeny Kuznetsov.

Heading into Sunday, Fox — last year’s Norris Trophy winner as the league’s best defenseman — led all NHL defensemen in scoring this season with 47 points. The third-year player from Jericho would have been participating in his first All-Star Game.

Igor unfazed

Goaltender Igor Shesterkin, who made 40 saves and earned his 21st win of the season in the Rangers’ last-minute 3-2 win over the expansion Seattle Kraken on Sunday at the Garden, said he did not complain to his teammates about being outshot 25-12 through the first two periods (42-24 for the game).

"Honestly, I don’t think that shot ratio makes that much of a difference,’’ Shesterkin (21-5-2) said through an interpreter. "There are a lot of teams that just love shooting from any position, wherever they can. And they’re not really that dangerous. So [shot totals are] not the most important thing.’’

Blue notes

F Filip Chytil missed his fourth straight game with a lower-body injury, though Gerard Gallant said the 22-year-old is getting better. He did not rule out a return by Chytil for Tuesday’s game against Florida at the Garden. That will be the Rangers’ final game before the All-Star break . . . F Kaapo Kakko, who is on IR with an upper-body injury, missed his fourth game . . . The Rangers used the same lineup as Friday. F Tim Gettinger and D Nils Lundkvist were the scratches.

By Colin Stephenson

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Colin Stephenson covers the Rangers for Newsday. He has spent more than two decades covering the NHL and just about every sports team in the New York metropolitan area.