Chris Kreider

Rangers: End of Season Team Awards

The past 365 days for the Rangers have been a whirlwind. Once the regular season is officially over Friday night against the Washington Capitals, I’ll be releasing my season review. Until then, these are my team awards. While many categories have been set in stone, I’ll make up some of my own. MVP: Igor Shesterkin, […]

Top 5 Rangers Wildcards Heading into the Playoffs

Obviously, the Rangers will not be a wildcard team in this year’s iteration of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The term wildcard is more loosely referring to either a player or group of players who have the ability to take this team to the next level. For the purposes of this list, stars like Panarin, Kreider, […]

Report: Kreider hits 50 goal plateau

He did it. On Tuesday night, Chris Kreider became the 4th Ranger in franchise history to score 50 goals in one season. He joined elite company when he slid a rebound past Frederik Andersen of the Carolina Hurricanes to bring the Rangers within one late in the third period. The Blueshirts would lose the game […]

Report: Chris Kreider for… 50?

The New York Rangers selected Chris Kreider 19th overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. The Boxford, Massachusetts native turned pro after winning two National Championships in three seasons at Boston College. On the heels of the 2012 National Championship, and with the ink still moist from his contract, Kreider jumped into his first NHL […]

Addition by Maturation

With an excessive amount of space to fit any player they desire under the cap, there has been some well-deserved ballyhoo about who the Rangers should, could, and would target ahead of the March 21st trade deadline. Names like Claude Giroux, Jakob Chychrun, Phil Kessel, Artturi Lekhonen, and Joe Pavelski are all floating around the […]

Rangers enter All-Star break at the perfect time, on a perfect note

The Florida Panthers averaged five goals per game during the entire month of January. Combine that with Adam Fox (reigning Norris Trophy winner) sitting out his third straight game due to an upper-body injury, and the deck was stacked against the Rangers Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. The first period at MSG began on […]

Rangers First-Half Grading

Wow! What a first half of hockey! With the All-Star break upcoming, it gives us a chance to flashback at the first half of the New York Rangers season. There were so many bright spots for them and some unfortunate dark ones. This allows us a chance to grade each player’s first half and explain […]

Report: A Potential Chytil for DeBrusk trade on the table

There is a report that there is possible interest on both Rangers and Bruins sides for a swap 1 for 1 of Chytil and DeBrusk, both former first-round picks. Chytil, primarily center, is 22 left-handed shot and has four goals and seven assists in 38 games. However, some people are saying that Chytil is better […]

Opinion: Perfecting The Rangers Power Play

While you might be looking at the title of this article and saying to yourself, ‘the Rangers power play is fine,’ or ‘the Rangers power play is good,’ hear me out. The New York Rangers are 7th in the league on the power play. 7th isn’t bad, but I’m sure the team would like to […]

New York Rangers: Evaluating Players Against Expectations

So far, this season has been a roller coaster. For the first ten games, Shesterkin and Fox carried this team. Then the team got it together and went on a hot streak until finally cooling off a bit before the holiday break. We will go over the big-name players of this team and evaluate how […]