Does Rangers defenseman Adam Fox have a future with the team?

GREENBURGH — Through one prism, Adam Fox’s words could be viewed as an innocuous acknowledgment of the plainly obvious.

Through another, they could be construed as potentially an ominous precursor to a divorce between the Jericho native and the only team for which he has played an NHL game.

Does Fox want to remain with the retooling Blueshirts?

“That’s a conversation when we’re done playing games,” he said shortly after the Rangers’ 3-2 overtime loss to the Flyers on Thursday night at the Garden. “We’re trying to win games — didn’t do that tonight — and I think that’s where my focus is right now.”

For Fox, 28, and the Rangers, this season has been one to forget.

Fox has four goals and 24 assists but has played in only 31 of the Rangers’ 58 games because of injuries.

He missed 14 games after suffering an upper-body injury in a 4-1 loss to the Lightning on Nov. 29 before returning for the 6-3 New Year’s Eve loss to the Capitals. Fox then suffered a lower-body injury in the Rangers’ 3-2 overtime loss to Utah on Jan. 5. He returned in Thursday night’s nationally televised game and logged 24 minutes, 57 seconds.

“Trying to shake off some rust,” Fox said. “Trying to get all that timing and everything down.”

The Rangers (22-29-7, 51 points) are last in the Eastern Conference. Only Vancouver (43) has earned fewer points. As a result, president of hockey operations and general manager Chris Drury announced through the team’s social media channels on Jan. 16 that organizational decision-makers were going to engage in a “retool” to stockpile draft picks and prospects.

Defenseman Carson Soucy was traded to the Islanders for a third-round draft pick 10 days later and Artemi Panarin was dealt to Los Angeles on Feb. 4 for prospect Liam Greentree and conditional draft picks.

It is believed that Drury is likely to trade center Vincent Trocheck by the March 6 trade deadline. Speculation persists that Sam Carrick, Alexis Lafreniere and Braden Schneider also could be moved.

“It’s been really hard,” coach Mike Sullivan said after a special teams-intensive 45-minute practice at the MSG Training Center on Friday. “We’ve had some conversations around it. The trade deadline is never an easy time for players. That’s just in my experience both as a player [and] coaching other teams over the years. This week .  .  . there’s a level of uncertainty that players have to deal with.”

Fox, who practiced but was not in the dressing room while it was open to reporters, signed a seven-year, $66.5 million contract on Nov. 1, 2021, that has no-movement clauses for this season and next, followed by 16-team no-trade clauses for the 2027-28 and 2028-29 seasons.

If Fox is open to a trade, Drury’s asking price should be high, given that Fox won the Norris Trophy as the league’s best defenseman after the 2020-21 season. For his career, Fox has 397 points in 462 regular-season games and 39 points in 46 playoff games.

Notes & quotes: The Rangers claimed forward Tye Kartye off waivers from Seattle. Kartye, 24, had three goals and five assists in 40 games.