{"id":451074,"date":"2025-12-16T14:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/451074\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:17:11","slug":"chris-kreider-is-finding-the-gratitude-in-his-post-rangers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/451074\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Kreider is finding the gratitude in his post-Rangers life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just outside the visiting locker room at Madison Square Garden on Monday morning, Chris Kreider did his best to downplay his return to New York.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has never enjoyed the individual spotlight, it was evident that Kreider wasn\u2019t exactly at ease as he fielded questions about his 13 years as a Ranger, what it meant to him, and how he expected to feel going into his first game against the organization that drafted him 19th overall in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Kreider has always been good at<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/12\/sports\/ducks-chris-kreider-viewing-return-to-garden-as-strictly-a-business-trip\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> making it about his team<\/a>, now the up-and-coming Ducks. And that\u2019s exactly what he did ahead of his first game against the Blueshirts since they traded him to Anaheim this past offseason.<\/p>\n<p>While Kreider certainly didn\u2019t sound like someone who wanted to leave New York, the veteran forward seemed fulfilled by his new opportunity with the Ducks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just outside the visiting locker room at Madison Square Garden on Monday morning, Chris Kreider did his best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":451075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3115,44266,206301,1302,293,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-451074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-chris-kreider","10":"tag-jacob-trouba","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-columnists","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115729678236500964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}