Rangers' Kreider on trade rumors and struggles: 'Let's get through this s--- now'
The New York Rangers are trending in the wrong direction and now with the latest trade buzz regarding a couple of key players, tension is rising fast in the Big Apple. Rangers' forward Chris Kreider has been planted in the dead centre of all the trade rumors, and it's a spot he's not necessarily happy about to be in.
Kreider spoke earlier this week to the New York Post's Mollie Walker and it was pretty obvious to tell how frustrated he's become with what's going on around the hockey club:
I think it's pretty obvious there’s frustration, angst, tension," Kreider told the New York Post's Mollie Walker. "Good. We're 20 games in. Let's go through this shit now and figure out who we are. We had the best regular season in the history of an Original Six franchise last year, won a Presidents' Trophy and didn't go as far as we would've liked. We're getting exposed right now. Our warts are out there, and teams are picking on the things we don’t do well. And we've gotten away from the things we do do well."
The Rangers are 12-8-1 on the year, good for the top wildcard spot in the Eastern Conference. Kreider is off to a tough start, with nine goals and zero assists through 19 games. The speedy 33-year-old winger has two more years on his contract at $6.5 million AAV, and holds a 15-team no-trade clause.
"We don't necessarily know what this is right now, right?" Kreider said. "This could just be part of the story. We look back at this and say, 'This made us better. Shouldn't trivialize someone's feelings, but how you feel doesn't affect your ability to do something that you've done for the entirety of your life - unless you let it,"
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