{"id":161756,"date":"2021-01-24T06:39:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T03:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facing-sidney-crosby-teaches-alexis-lafreniere-valuable-lesson\/"},"modified":"2021-01-24T06:39:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T03:39:02","slug":"facing-sidney-crosby-teaches-alexis-lafreniere-valuable-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facing-sidney-crosby-teaches-alexis-lafreniere-valuable-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facing Sidney Crosby teaches Alexis Lafreniere valuable lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Facing Sidney Crosby teaches Alexis Lafreniere valuable lesson<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Rangers-Lafreniere.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It was simply unavoidable for Alexis Lafreniere to be compared to Penguins star Sidney Crosby on his journey to becoming the first-overall pick in the NHL more than three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby, the No. 1 pick in 2005, was the first player to be named Player of the Year in the Canadian Hockey League twice. Lafreniere was the second. Both players also played for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League\u2019s Rimouski Oceanic.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Lafreniere got to face Crosby for the first time while skating on the Rangers\u2019 first line with Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider. Crosby skated on Pittsburgh\u2019s top line.<\/p>\n<p>Getting first-line minutes for the first time against Crosby and the Penguins must have been surreal for Lafreniere, but it was also likely a wake-up call. Lafreniere, Kreider and Zibanejad were on the ice for two of the Penguins\u2019 three regulation goals in a shootout loss. Though Lafreniere didn\u2019t register a shot, Zibanejad had four and Kreider put one shot on goal.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-megaphone\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=ADL7942238014&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI thought that line had some good moments,\u201d Quinn said Friday of the top line. \u201cAlexis continues to do good things, and he\u2019s going to continue to get better. It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> 4 into his NHL career. I just love his passion, his enthusiasm, before the third period him and Kreider are talking about he\u2019s going to get his first point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just like a lot of the things that he does. And again, he\u2019s learning on the go. That\u2019s not easy to do in this league. It\u2019s just fun to watch him continue to work at his game and very coachable, wants to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the first game this season that Kreider was moved to the right wing, his off-side, to ensure that Lafreniere was back in his natural position at left wing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, wing is wing, especially the way that we play defense,\u201d Kreider said. \u201cYou come back through the zone, sometimes you\u2019re on the right, sometimes you\u2019re on the left. I think our line probably chased it a little bit more than we wanted, same side we were staring down the barrel of 87 [Crosby] and 58 [Kris Letang] all night, and those guys are pretty good players in their own right. I\u2019d like to say we didn\u2019t give them a lot, but obviously we gave up two pretty important goals when we were on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big part of playing a good real game is playing up against those tough matchups and limiting their chances. I thought we did that for the most part, played a little bit too much defense and didn\u2019t get enough riding time in the O-zone. But you\u2019re going to have those games and you need to weather the storm, and it\u2019s unfortunate that we weren\u2019t able to keep them off the board when it mattered the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>With an assist on Adam Fox\u2019s power play goal in Friday\u2019s loss at Pittsburgh, Artemi Panarin collected his 100th point in his 73rd game with the Rangers, breaking the record for the fewest games to 100 points. 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