Mike in Houston
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Youse guys should go on Twitter and revisit some of the takes about Chris Kreider. Especially in the immediate aftermath of the Pavel Buchnevich trade. I saw one that said Kreider's contract was "god awful". Yeah.
Been a Ranger fan for a long, long time (think 60 years). Kreider has made it into my top dozen, all-time favorite Rangers. Not in any particular order (aside from chronological): Gilbert, Giacomin, Hadfield, Hedberg, Nilsson, Leetch, Messier, Richter, Kovalev, Zuccarello, Lundqvist. and now Kreider.
I think it will be the Gallant era.We had the Lundqvist era, are we now in the Kreider Era?
He’s a student of the game.The fact he is also killing penalties and is very good at it, also really impresses me. He added two-way play to his game while significantly increasing his offense.
Or the Shesterkin era
Exactly and developing players tend to get better. That's the point of that part of it. Players are not necessarily stuck at a ceiling where they were at 20 years old.I think an important distinction was missed in that exchange.
Guys don't change the rate they shoot at of they choose not to shoot. They're pass-first players.
You can change your shooting rates if you get better.
Rangers eras should be defined by the plugs. Glass era, Nemeth era, DiGiuseppe era, and so on.The Nemeth era
Lots of people will say the Glass era was our best without a cup, but I'll always have a soft spot for the Anisimov era. That team had guts.Rangers eras should be defined by the plugs. Glass era, Nemeth era, DiGiuseppe era, and so on.
Why go to Twitter? There's gold right here in this thread.Youse guys should go on Twitter and revisit some of the takes about Chris Kreider. Especially in the immediate aftermath of the Pavel Buchnevich trade. I saw one that said Kreider's contract was "god awful". Yeah.
That was always dumb.Remember when the narrative about Kreider was that he was a really dumb player meanwhile he reinvented his game like no player I have seen on the Rangers.
"He's matured so much," said former NHL coach John Tortorella, Kreider's first coach with the Rangers in 2012. "I watch his interviews. I listen to him. I haven't coached him in many years, but he's such an intelligent player right now. Add that to the speed, the body, the legs, everything that comes with it. He has full command of what it is to be a great pro. I think it's a great person to emulate, coming into the League and kind of being one-dimensional to getting to where he is now as a hockey player. He's not just a guy that stands in front of the goalie and is looking to tip pucks," Tortorella said. "It's so easy to pigeon-hole him into being a strong, straight-ahead guy just going after pucks on the forecheck and being in the blue," Tortorella said. "There's a lot more to his game than that."
"He reads the situation," Zibanejad said. "If he feels like there is a tip and the goalie won't be at the post, he sees that very early. He knows when to do it and that's huge for our power play to have that threat down low. You don't always have that."
Goalies hate it, said Steve Valiquette, the former Rangers goalie who is a studio analyst for their games on MSG Network.
"Really annoying when players get behind you, especially when you're down a man," said Valiquette, who is also president and CEO of Clear Sight Analytics, a data-based company built around measuring scoring chances. "You can't challenge and it's very distracting."
Said former Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, "I always looked at him and said, 'He is this good but can he do it every night?' There's no question he can be a 40-goal scorer. The big thing is to be that you need to almost every night be there and so far, he's been there."
who needs twitter? Plenty of posts in this board about it. People were hating Kreider before the season started.Youse guys should go on Twitter and revisit some of the takes about Chris Kreider. Especially in the immediate aftermath of the Pavel Buchnevich trade. I saw one that said Kreider's contract was "god awful". Yeah.
Rangers eras should be defined by the plugs. Glass era, Nemeth era, DiGiuseppe era, and so on.
Wooo only the 4th ranger EVER to do this,
But instead we will have to see other threads at the top of the feed telling us how much individual players 'suck'...
Thanks Kreids for the memory