Player Discussion Chris Kreider

[duhmetreE]

This is what Kreider is a 50 point, 20-25 goal scorer who brings speed, physicality, and some leadership. Have no issues with that. If he was a 70-80 point guy he’d be making 8 million plus.

He could be a 40-50pts regular season guy.... but If he goes beast mode in playoffs... That's all I really care about

 

[Filip Chytil]

Kreider needs to play the piano the day of every game. Not a fancy keyboard piano. The real deal piano.

 

[Harbour Dog]

Kreider needs to play the piano the day of every game. Not a fancy keyboard piano. The real deal piano.

We could just keep a keytar on the bench for him, in case he ever needs that extra boost between shifts.

 

[Leonardo87]

Dude is on fire! Loving it right now. 5 goals in 3 games.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Captain Liberace

 

[RGY]

This guy is the Captain of this team, easily, hands down.

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

kreider plays piano now? speaks multiple language, musically talented, elite athlete, he's literally crafted by the gods

 

[duhmetreE]

Defenders when Chris Kreider is skating

 

[Jim Ramsay]

Im kind of shocked to see this thread hasn't been bumped already. With a lot of firepower not going for us lately, Kreider has stepped up. 4th in the league in goals scored

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Kaptain Kreider. Sew the K on his sweater already!

 

[will1066]

I never doubted him.

 

[WojtekWolski86]

The way he has handled the media, has shown leadership on the ice and speaks Russian as well to help our influx of Russian players...this guy has shown enough to me this year to deserve the C.

 

[Priorae]

He's kind of infuriating honestly. Unstoppable to a ghost and back seems to happen alot. But when he's on (like now)...so nice.

 

[bl02]

Im kind of shocked to see this thread hasn't been bumped already. With a lot of firepower not going for us lately, Kreider has stepped up. 4th in the league in goals scored

Actually first. North division shouldn’t count.

 

[MysticLeviathan]

he’s a very streaky player. you just hope he can keep up this intensity and still play well when his shooting % mellows out.

 

[dangsLITE]

While I don't think he can keep this up forever, the fact that he has doubled his career number of career hat tricks in the past week shows that he is really playing on a different level right now, especially for reg season.

 

[Anthony5967]

He’s stepped up big time. I was ripping him a new one. My problem with him is we know he’s not going to score hat tricks every week, but damn, when he’s moving he’s unstoppable. Does he not see it? Because let’s be honest, when he’s not going well, he stops skating and looks less inclined to engage in contact at all.

 

[NYSPORTS]

While I don't think he can keep this up forever, the fact that he has doubled his career number of career hat tricks in the past week shows that he is really playing on a different level right now, especially for reg season.

diminishing returns? Hope this isn’t the case and has more to do with familiarity but sometimes when you have so much talent then nothing works. Kinda like an All-Star team.

 

[duhmetreE]

Im kind of shocked to see this thread hasn't been bumped already. With a lot of firepower not going for us lately, Kreider has stepped up. 4th in the league in goals scored

85% of the board was against Kreider and his signing.... they are not bumping it

 

[Captain Monglobster]

This is Kreider. He scores in bunches and then will be invisible for a week. Nothing new, just great timing right now with panarin out and Zib flying over the cuckoos nest.

 

[duhmetreE]

I know everyone loves Laf... but is no one going to talk about that shot? That's a world class snipe/release.

 

[Leonardo87]

Kreider needs to play more piano.

 

[romba]

I know everyone loves Laf... but is no one going to talk about that shot? That's a world class snipe/release.

Not his first one this year either, nor was it his second...

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

This is Kreider. He scores in bunches and then will be invisible for a week. Nothing new, just great timing right now with panarin out and Zib flying over the cuckoos nest.

It's true. But there is something especially feel good about this hot streak. He has done a good job this year getting out in front of the media and speaking to the fanbase during the bad times, so I definitely appreciate him doing his part to back that talk up with his actions as well. He's gotten some puck luck, but he has also been much more engaged on the forecheck over the last ~2 weeks winning puck battlers. He gets full credit for that in my book.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

It's true. But there is something especially feel good about this hot streak. He has done a good job this year getting out in front of the media and speaking to the fanbase during the bad times, so I definitely appreciate him doing his part to back that talk up with his actions as well. He's gotten some puck luck, but he has also been much more engaged on the forecheck over the last ~2 weeks winning puck battlers. He gets full credit for that in my book.

This is more encouraging than the goal scoring.

He wasn't doing ANY of this earlier in the year. When he goes cold, that part of the game can't go with the goal scoring because he becomes useless.

He's not going to continue to shoot at 30% and that shouldn't be the expectation. The effort along the walls/puck retrievals should be non negotiable though.