This year, Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re admits, has been hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally hard,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Just two years ago, Lafreni\u00e8re \u2014 the top overall pick in 2020 \u2014 was the buzz of the Rangers run to the Eastern Conference final, with eight goals and 14 points across 16 games. Just 15 months ago, he was rewarded with a seven-year extension worth over $52 million, a tangible sign of the Blueshirts envisioning him as part of their future.<\/p>\n
But in the present, in the middle of another rut in the middle of another underwhelming campaign, Lafreni\u00e8re has been hit with a different reality. In the aftermath of The Letter 2.0, Lafreni\u00e8re, still just 24, could be a piece that president and general manager Chris Drury decides to move before the March 6 trade deadline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year, Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re admits, has been hard. \u201cReally hard,\u201d he said. Just two years ago, Lafreni\u00e8re \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":546890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[66395,6335,1302,293,20262,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-546889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-alexis-lafreniere","9":"tag-exclusive","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115967274826400323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546889","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=546889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}