Adam Fox and Kendra Miller have declined invitations to play for Team USA in the upcoming World Championship tournament to be played in Riga, Latvia, The Post has learned, while inviting Alexis Lafreniere to represent Canada Expected to be rejected.
NHL players are subject to a ban for months, which does not apply to the general population and will face the COVID-19 protocol during the tournament, which is played from May 21 to June 6. Laffrinier will face a quarantine upon his return home from Latvia. Quebec.
In addition, Miller has been in the New York area since last July and has not been home for 10 months. Laffrinier has been in the area since the first week of July and has not seen his parents or family since. Both need time away from home and away from the rink.
Fox, who did not register a point in the final six matches of the season, is the leader in the clubhouse for points scored by a defenseman with 47 (5-42). But Edmonton’s Tyson Barry is a point back (8-38-46) for playing three games while Tampa Bay’s Victor Hedman is two games (9-36-45) with one game left.
Only three Rangers were on the ice for more goals than goals for five on-fives, they were Chris Kreider (27/29), Lafrinier (29/31) and Brett Howden (12/15). Fox led the defenseman in percentage for a target of 58.11 (43/31), while Philip Chipil’s 61.36 (27/17) led the team, ahead of Artemi Panarin’s 60.0 (33/22).
Meanwhile, Capo Kakko made the most dramatic improvement not only on the Rangers but in the entire NHL. After finishing with a percentage for the worst goals in the league among players with at least 700 minutes played at 28.57 (14/35) last year, Finn checked in at 55.81 (24/19). All numbers courtesy of naturalstattrick.com.
Crider, who was sidelined for the final six games with lower-back issues, was bouncing back to the 2012–13 rookie season between New York and Hartford since the worst statistical year of his career.
The winger scored 20 goals to tie Pavel Buchaniewic on second for the club behind Mawe Jibanezad’s 24, but his four goals came in a six-game stretch from 4 February on 20 March, including a pair of hat-tricks. Kreider thus scored 11 goals in the other 44 games.
In addition, Kreider’s five-for-five points per 80.00, down from last season’s 2.4, fell to 1.82, the lowest since 2012-13. His 60 shots of 5.29 per year were clearly down from 8.2 the previous year.
Chytil led the club at 609 per five-on-five shots at 8.59 while Julian Gauthier finished second at 8.01. Ryan Strom was third at 7.59 with Buchenwich with 7.73.
However, Kreider finished fourth in the league behind 11 power-play goals, 14 from Leon Dravisital and 12 from Joe Pavelski and TJ Oishi.
Buchnevich, Chytil, Gauthier, Howden, Ryan Lindgren, Libor Hajek and Igor Shesterkin are the only restricted arbitrators, of which only Buchnevich is eligible for pay arbitration.
Brendan Smith and Phil Di Giuseppe are pending free agents on the roster.
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