Après un été mouvementé, Chris Kreider entame sa 12e saison professionnelle, entraîné par des défaites qui « font mal »
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Dont_know_where_i_am
@Rangers de New York
Après un été mouvementé, Chris Kreider entame sa 12e saison professionnelle, entraîné par des défaites qui « font mal »
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Dont_know_where_i_am
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>The conversation with Kreider doesn’t flourish around personal moments. Much like his summer, it’s back to hockey, and quickly. Kreider took the early honeymoon so as not to disrupt his offseason training, which gets intense around mid-August. Kreider has been at Ben Prentiss’ Stamford, Conn., gym as long as he’s been in the NHL.
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>Zegras said earlier this summer he tried to show Kreider a few stickhandling moves while Kreider was showing Zegras his skill at tipping pucks in front of the net.
Michigan goal from Kreider this year.
>“You’re going to be reading and reacting in the moment, you’ve got a job to do and you do your job and trust the other guy’s going to do his,” Kreider said. “The game’s too fast to be guessing or thinking. When everyone’s on the same page, that’s what allows a team to be fast. Fastest guys in the league, slowest guys in the league — doesn’t matter. Plodders can look fast as long as they’re on the same page.”
Everyone’s favorite bromance.
>We’ll start with the pinnacle of Chris Kreider’s eventful summer: getting married in August. There were a few current and former teammates on hand for the event — most notably the guy standing up there with Kreider and his now-wife, Francesca.
>“It meant the world,” Kreider said of Mika Zibanejad being his best man. “It’s a pretty tall ask.”
>The “Kreibanejad” summer began a month earlier when Kreider took a pre-honeymoon trip to Europe and spent a night watching Zibanejad DJ at Lollapalooza in Stockholm. “First time I saw him in a venue like that,” Kreider said. “Pretty awesome experience. Not a bad hobby.”
Speaking of honeymoons, the grace period is over for this team after that disgrace in last season’s playoffs. The season as a whole was extremely frustrating with the lack of scoring. Kreider is a homegrown guy. He should have risen to the level of captain but he disappears for weeks at a time. That needs to come to an end. He doesn’t need the C but he needs to be a leader, and that means consistently leading by example and production. That is what homegrown players are supposed to do. They must lead. If not them, who? They have to show the mercenaries why they must play hard, what level of drive is expected of them, and who they are ultimately playing for. Without that coming from the homegrown players, the team will struggle to reach a championship level of performance.
I believe last season’s problem stemmed from a leadership void and lack of accountability. I believe Laviolette will hold players accountable. The significant parts of this roster are mostly unchanged from last season, which means I expect to see a game where the team takes a period off. I am looking forward to see the way Laviolette responds to that. I expect that he will make a big statement the very first time it happens and put his mark on this team, announcing loud and clear that a lack of focus and intensity, especially in the third period, particularly in the last five minutes, will not be tolerated. Kreider needs to back Laviolette’s play by taking the lead and driving his teammates to ramp up focus in the third period and especially in the last minutes. No more excuses. It’s time to nut up.
Back when I was younger, the NHL and a lot of sports stores sold these things called « Split Jerseys » which was one half road, one half home. The fact that the Rangers haven’t made a Split Jersey with one half Kreider one half Zibanejad is mind boggling. This bromance needs to be the resurgence of split jerseys