2:02PM: Bob McKenzie listed Nash in a tweet that mentioned players who had suffered concussions this season.

Nash said earlier today,  that he has been banged up “quite a bit” and didn’t feel as if I could compete during the games he missed.

Nash said that the plan is to return to the Rangers lineup shortly.

11:05AM: Katie Strang says that Nash described his presence at the morning skate as “positive.”

11:04AM: Nash tells Andrew Gross that he doesn’t think he will play tonight, but that he has been skating on his own since last week.

Nash wouldn’t specify the exact ailment that has kept him out of the lineup and said that it was a few different things.

10:54AM: Steve Zipay says that Nash is still on the ice with Mike Sullivan and Mike Biron while all the other Rangers are off the ice.

10:30AM: According to Pat Leonard, RICK NASH is ON THE ICE at the Rangers morning skate today.

He is wearing a jersey that designates him for contact.

THIS SECTION has all of the details on Nash’s injury.

The Rangers website notes that Rick Nash has been placed on Injured Reserve.

The NY Post says that the move is retroactive to Feb 17 and he would be eligible to come off IR tomorrow.

The move is likely to create a roster spot for Christian Thomas.

Recap of the Nash injury saga.

2:26PM: The Rangers have announced that Rick Nash WILL not join the team in Montreal for tomorrow night’s game.

10:33AM: According to Katie Strang, the Rangers have provided no update on whether Rick Nash will join the Rangers for tomorrow’s game in Montreal.

Nash did not make the trip to Ottawa yesterday but it was mentioned on the broadcast last night that the team was hoping he could join them in Montreal.

The Rangers are not practicing today.

Rick Nash has missed the previous two games with what is being speculated as dealing with after effects from a hit that Milan Lucic put on Nash last Tuesday in Boston.

Lucic told Joe Haggerty of CSNNE that the hit was clean and “I think he’s like 6-foot-4 and it was one of those things where I hit him and his head hit the glass [afterward]. It’s unfortunate for them and it’s unfortunate for Rick that he might be out because of that hit.”

He adds that he has only faced supplemental discipline once in his career and says that he isn’t a dirty player.

via PHT

via the NY Post

Nash is out tomorrow against Ottawa.

Following this hit, Rick Nash did this in the shootout:

Rick Nash was a late scratch last night with an undisclosed injury.

This is likely the same ailment that caused him to miss a season ticket holder event last Friday, practice on Saturday and make him questionable Sunday before he ended up playing against the Capitals.

There was speculation on Saturday night and Sunday that Nash may not be feeling well because of a hit that he took from Milan Lucic last week in Boston.

Yesterday, Katie Strang reported at ESPN NY that neither Nash nor the Rangers were happy with the hit from Lucic and felt he should have been penalized.

Today in the NY Post, Larry Brooks writes, “the Rangers aren’t saying anything about the condition of Nash, who played two days after taking the unpenalized hit and then again three days after that despite a couple of days that we know of, when he wasn’t feeling well. No one is saying whether No. 61 is suffering post-concussion symptoms. Perhaps more to the point, no one is saying he isn’t.”

Carp from Rangers Report writes, “The top-secrecy of the whole thing kinda makes it sound worse.”

John Tortorella has not commented on Nash and has said that he won’t comment on injuries this season.

The Rangers practice at 12PM today.

Adam Rotter: Speculation is running wild with Nash and I think part of the reason is to try and get John Tortorella to open up, at least a little bit, about why Nash is out. Tortorella is just trying to protect his player, but if it were something physical, like Ryan Callahan’s shoulder injury, the team would make an announcement about it.

When it comes to concussions, the Rangers have experience with Marc Staal, Michael Sauer, Brian Boyle, Marian Gaborik and now Darroll Powe. It’s hard to know if it’s a concussion because you see guys like Sauer, Powe and Boyle leave the game, but Marc Staal played through most of his concussion and Nash finished the game against the Bruins and scored in the shootout.

Staal passed a concussion test and was cleared to play after taking that hit from his brother almost two years ago, but missed a couple of games later in the season and then missed the first half of last season.

9:46AM: In the NY Post, Brooks recounts that Lucic used his forearm to drive Nash’s head into the boards and writes, “Now, a few days later, Nash isn’t feeling well. And though it may be a coincidence, it may not be one, either.”

He adds “As long as the Department of Player Safety is or feels bound to give the benefit of the doubt to the transgressor rather than the victim, it is not living up to its charge to make the game safer.

2/16/13- 5:35PM: Larry Brooks tweets:

• Have to hope there’s no connection between whatever Nash is feeling and having his head slammed into boards by Lucic on Tues in Bost.
• Lucic used forearm to drive Nash’s head into boards to finish check. Nash then responded with marginal hook. One penalty called. Guess who?

Nash was called for a hooking penalty at 6:43.