Player Discussion Chris Kreider

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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.

We had the Lundqvist era, are we now in the Kreider Era?
 
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.
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.
But I'm not looking to divert this to a Laf thread. Apologies.
 
I was going to say Hadfield was a Ranger from the get go...but he was drafted by Chicago although he never played for them he did put time in at the Hawk farm clubs before he became a Ranger and became our first 50 goal scorer . LOL....some of us remember him .
 
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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.
That was always dumb.

Because he's a freak athlete, people expected a 40-40 player and blamed low-IQ when that didn't happen. Either that or laziness.

The fact is, he just doesn't have elite skills. He has ok hands in traffic, a good shot, below average passer. His one elite pure skill is tipping.

What he did have was a plan to accentuate his strengths and apply his athleticism. He's an extremely high-IQ and hard-working player.
 
He's even casually sniping from the half circle now, what the heck is going on?! My skull was against the floor 30 games ago, how much further into the soil does my skull have to sink before he stops to impress me? Will I do a full 360 and end up in my chair again before the playoffs are over?

He never managed to do that before (snipe like a boss) from the eternity of games I've watched him play. He has honed his net presence greatly, he's not reliant on rushes and now when he joins the rush he's even a shooting threat.

I'm on my 15th plate of crows for considering keeping him was kind of a mistake (when NYR lost so many others). How can he develop so... how... I have so many questions what the heck just happened. But am I happy eating my 15th plate of crow? Hell yes. What a beast he's been. I cannot see how this is a fluke as long as he plays with his buddy Mika. And Fox. And Panarin. No disregard to Kreider's own work of course, he has been absolutely amazing.

I bet Kreider has been getting alot of great tips from alot of great shooters on this team. The deflection thing must be a product of his own, because he's a darn master at it.

But most of it all I think that Kreider reads the game much better now. He puts himself in a good spot more often than before and he has honed his craft to a great extent.
 
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Found an article back from December with some nice quotes from Torts Vally and Hank about how he's matured as a player.


"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."
 
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.
who needs twitter? Plenty of posts in this board about it. People were hating Kreider before the season started.
 
Happy for CK, a 50 goal season, and he’s going to pass 700 regular season games as a Ranger next season, stinks it happened in a loss, but hopefully he is thrilled at least on the inside, he should be.
 
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

Couldn't have picked a better player to do it.

Worth the wait (the sad irony is not lost on me either)
 
I had absolutely no positive feelings about his goal tonight. Almost missed it. Nothing to do with Kreider but it being an almost meaningless goal in a huge loss was a disservice to his season. Congrats on a great season regardless.
 

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