{"id":534194,"date":"2026-04-01T06:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534194\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:01:20","slug":"rangers-alexis-lafrenieres-net-front-presence-adding-new-dynamic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534194\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; Alexis Lafreniere&#8217;s net-front presence adding new dynamic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extra effort Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re has put into his net-front role is paying dividends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not just the added reps he\u2019s taken before, during and after practices lately, but the full-scale commitment the 2020 first overall pick has made to getting to the middle of the ice and asserting himself around the crease during games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lafreni\u00e8re\u2019s six tip-in goals entering <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/31\/sports\/rangers-how-some-fight-to-avoid-dubious-sweep-in-win-over-devils\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday\u2019s 4-1 win over the Devils<\/a> leads the Rangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among the entire NHL, he sits in an eight-way tie for the third-most tip-in scores.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The extra effort Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re has put into his net-front role is paying dividends.\u00a0 Not just the added&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[304,5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-534194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-alexis-lafreniere","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkrangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116327932577811126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534194","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=534194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}