Two weeks from Opening Night and the Rangers have lost a defenseman for the foreseeable future. Ryan Lindgren is expected to be sidelined for at least a few weeks with an upper-body injury, which he sustained in a fight with the Islanders’ Scott Mayfield Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.

Defenseman Ryan Lindgren, who fought Scott Mayfield in the first period of the 6-4 win after Mayfield’s hit on Filip Chytil had left the center on all fours in center ice, will be out “at least several weeks’’ with an upper-body injury, the Rangers announced Wednesday.

The New York Rangers have provided an update on Ryan Lindgren who left Tuesday’s 6-4 win over the New York Islanders with an upper-body injury. Lindgren is expected to be out “at least a few weeks” after taking an uppercut during a fight against Scott Mayfield.

Lindgren got into an altercation with Islanders defenseman Scott Mayfield after Mayfield leveled Filip Chytil with a hard open-ice hit, per Mollie Walker of the New York Post.

Ryan Lindgren will miss at least a few weeks with an upper-body injury, so how will the New York Rangers replace him in their lineup?

The New York Rangers are already facing injuries to two key players before the regular season has even started. Artemi Panarin and Ryan Lindgren were sidelined during Tuesday’s exhibition game against their in-state rival New York Islanders at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.

Rangers forward Artemi Panarin and defenceman Ryan Lindgren both exited Tuesday’s game early after they sustained a lower-body and upper-body injury respectively.