“He’s a special player” – Rangers forward Chris Kreider scores 50th goal of season in home loss against Hurricanes

“He’s a special player” – Rangers forward Chris Kreider scores 50th goal of season in home loss against Hurricanes

Chris Kreider

New York Rangers forward Chris Kreider scored his 50th goal of the season on Tuesday night, becoming only the fourth player in team history to do so. The 30-year-old Kreider, who is currently in his 10th National Hockey League (NHL) season, scored with goalie Igor Shesterkin pulled during a 4-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes during a top battle in the Metropolitan Division at Madison Square Garden.

However, the Rangers didn’t have much time to laud Kreider as his goal only managed to trim New York’s deficit to just one in the final moments of a crucial game.

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“It’s something that we can talk about probably on another day,” Kreider said after the game, as quoted by NHL.com. “It’s hard after a game like that. We were in it, we were doing a lot of good things. I think this would have meant a lot more if we found a way to win the game.”

“We’ve got some absolutely incredible people in the room”

Chris Kreider
Chris Kreider

The Massachusetts native Kreider now joined the elite list constituting the likes of Jaromir Jagr (54 in 2005-06), Adam Graves (52 in 1993-94) and Vic Hadfield (50 in 1971-72).

“I could feel guys looking for me and they play very tight man to man,” he added. “I was telling Mika [Zibanejad] I felt like a shooting guard a lot of the night trying to work my way around picks and get open, but that’s how they play defence. It’s better for the whole team now that we can just go back to playing hockey and taking what the other team gives us.

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“We’ve got some absolutely incredible people in that room who were pulling for me and that means the world to me, but put it behind us and everyone can go back to shooting the puck and I can go back to screening the goalie.”

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