{"id":477075,"date":"2026-02-19T03:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477075\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:44:07","slug":"alexis-lafreniere-opens-up-to-the-post-about-the-rangers-brutal-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477075\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Lafreniere opens up to The Post about the Rangers&#8217; brutal reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re never thought the season would devolve into this with the Rangers, both from personal and team standpoints.<\/p>\n<p>The enigmatic former No. 1 draft pick has not taken a step forward during his sixth season in the NHL, among several factors why the Blueshirts will come out of the Olympic break next week with the worst record in the Eastern Conference. <\/p>\n<p>There is a high likelihood of additional moves ahead of the March 6 trade deadline, after team president Chris Drury <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/05\/sports\/artemi-panarin-is-gone-stakes-of-rangers-roster-churn-rising\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already shipped out leading scorer Artemi Panarin<\/a> to the Kings on Feb. 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery season you go into it trying to win and perform, and it wasn\u2019t [the case].. It\u2019s been tough for us this year,\u201d Lafreni\u00e8re told The Post after practice Wednesday in Tarrytown. \u201cWe got rid of a couple of guys, and it\u2019s been hard. But we have 25 games to try to finish strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re never thought the season would devolve into this with the Rangers, both from personal and team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11555,19678,186,4823,385,77322,99,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-477075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-alexis-lafreniere","9":"tag-artemi-panarin","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}