The beginning, four goals in seven games, directly after a postseason in which he collected eight in 16, was promising for Alexis LaFrenière.
Everything caused a contract extension and a seven -year commitment that said it would remain part of the new nucleus of the Rangers in the future.
But the rest of 2024-25-13 goals in its next final of the 74 Enterday games against The Lightning, and only three since February 5, was disastrous to the end of 23 years.
Lafrenière experienced finish lines or 13 and 14 games.
He could not maintain the postseason magic and did not reach the expectations of his contracts of $ 52 million created.
He began to think too much of what he probably did in previous seasons, while he also looked for a way of “getting one to enter and feel better later,” he stepped on Wednesday.
“Maybe a little safe,” Lafrenière said about thought too much than in the past seasons, “when you go on not scoring or whatever. Sure, you think about it when you are on the ice. Yes, it was not the best safe year.”
These deficiencies will shape their low season, when the Rangers will probably experience many changes, but La Frenière, giving their treatment, will continue to be a constant.
That stability, thought, “comes with responsibility,” he said.
You will have to strengthen the ice. I need to improve his skating while he is in him. You need to improve to find cracks that lead to better possibilities, in addition to reaching the network and “difficult areas.”
Chief coach Peter Laviolette said he has the potential “to have a great impact on the game” just like someone like Artemi Panarin, something that materialized for the rangers when they needed it more in the last postseason.
But after a Sprint letter to start the year, that progress failed. Lafrenière, a former general selection No. 1, stagnated.
And now, Laviolette said: “This is consistency.”
“There are always ups and downs from year to year, or even within a year,” said Laviolette. “You learn from Him. You try to advance from that.”
Sam Carrick was appointed receiver of the players of players, who was voted by teammates of the Rangers, while Panarin, with 37 goals and 89 points in 81 games, was appointed MVP of the team by members of the media. Panarin was also announced as the winner of the Good Guy Media Award.
“Panarin probably speaks for himself,” Laviolette said about the MVP of the team and the player of the players settle. “… you can see it in the way the game plays, the impact on the ice is important for this team.
“With respect to [Carrick]That he could not have a leg for a better guy, a better person in the way he is carried and handled in the locker room, what he does for the equipment on the ice. He plays a physical game. He would enter and defend any of his teammates in a second fraction. “
The announcer Sam Rosen, who has been a basic element of the Blshirts Games for 40 years, will call his last game on Thursday night.