Though no official recovery timetable has been announced for Stepan (leg), Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said he's expected to hear that the center will miss four-to-six weeks of action, Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News reports.

Though no official recovery timetable has been announced for Stepan (leg), Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said he's expected to hear that the center will miss four-to-six weeks of action, Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News reports.

Analysis:

A six-week injury would put Stepan on track to miss all nine of the Rangers' regular season games in October, a predicament that could test the team's thin depth at center. Stepan, who was set to open as the pivot on the top line with Chris Kreider and Rick Nash, has never missed a game in his young NHL career.