PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Before the Rangers took the ice Monday for morning skate, Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re already was out there. He practiced his net-front tips, one after the other, with assistant coach Ty Hennes for his current position on the top power-play unit.<\/p>\n
But Lafreni\u00e8re putting in the extra work before morning skate isn\u2019t exactly a sight that\u2019s been synonymous with his six seasons in New York.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s never happened before; it surely has. Every player has a different approach and is entitled to their preferred routine.<\/p>\n
Since the Rangers drafted him first overall in 2020, however, Lafreni\u00e8re\u2019s work ethic has been questioned as he\u2019s struggled to find consistency in the NHL. It\u2019s only become more relevant since he signed a seven-year, $52.15 million extension in October 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Before the Rangers took the ice Monday for morning skate, Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re already was out there.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[304,12962,5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,350,336],"class_list":["post-495600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-rangers","tag-alexis-lafreniere","tag-exclusive","tag-hockey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkrangers","tag-nhl","tag-rangers","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116202138846444340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}