{"id":96388,"date":"2025-12-16T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:37:15","slug":"chris-kreider-is-finding-the-gratitude-in-his-post-rangers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96388\/","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":2,"featured_media":96389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,1717,10370,6755,404,127,1326,52880],"class_list":{"0":"post-96388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-chris-kreider","13":"tag-jacob-trouba","14":"tag-new-york-rangers","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}