Nash wouldn't put a timetable on his return but said if all goes well, he could be back on the ice late next week.
"We did the last scan on Friday and everything was still there so we wanted to wait a week," Nash said. "So we are going to do another scan this Friday and hopefully by next weekend I will be back on the ice if everything is positive."
Nash hasn't been able to be on the ice with his teammates for the past three weeks, but is happy with the way they have been playing without him. The Rangers are 6-2-1 without Nash, who has 12 goals and 33 points in 45 games this season. He has 390 goals in 907 NHL games.
Nash was most impressed with how well New York has played defensively in the absence of captain Ryan McDonagh, who has missed the past four games with a concussion. The Rangers have allowed seven goals during that stretch, including one with 9.7 seconds remaining in the 3-1 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday.
"It's been great," Nash said. "I think early on in the season, we couldn't find our defensive game and it was hurting us. We were losing and letting in a lot of goals but lately we've gotten back to the way we were last year, playing defense first."
Following a trip to the Stanley Cup Final, where they were defeated in five games by the Los Angeles Kings in 2014, the Rangers lost in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final to the Tampa Bay Lightning last season, which still sticks with Nash.