The Rangers have announced that Chris Kreider underwent successful surgery on Friday to “remove a small bone fragment from his wrist.”
The surgery was performed at the Hospital for Special Surgery and comes with a recovery time of 2-4 weeks.
Kreider had 10 goals and six assists in the playoffs.
His total of 62 goals (52 regular season and 10 post-season) tied Adam Graves’ record of 62 goals (52 regular season and 10 post-season) for an entire season.
8:04 PM: In the All-Star “Save Streak” event, Kreider scored once on Andrei Vasilevski and was stopped by Jack Campbell.
7:53 PM: Chris Kreider finished third in the Fastest Skater Competition.
He finished with a time of 13.664.
The NHL has announced that Chris Kreider has been named the NHL’s First Star of the week.
From the NHL:
Kreider was also named the NHLPA’s player of the week.
Chris Kreider was on an NHL Zoom call Monday with former teammates Kevin Hayes and Keith Yandle, along with Chris Wagner, to discuss their roots in Boston.
While on the call, Kreider was asked about his fractured foot and said “my foot feels good…foot was better a few weeks ago so I’m able to work on rehabbing it and getting it back to where it was.”
He added that during the quarantine he is outside of NYC and in Connecticut, “it gives me an opportunity to get outside a little bit but really haven’t seen many people. Just kind of slowly losing my mind trying to do things to keep busy.”
Jeff Gorton said on March 4th that Kreider was likely to be out 4-6 weeks.
Kreider had begun skating with the Rangers at their morning skates shortly before the league was paused.
3/11/20 | Joe Micheletti said on MSG that Kreider was skating in full uniform this morning.
3/10/20 | 7:38PM: David Quinn spoke before the game and said (NYR):
12:41PM: Chris Kreider, in sweatshirt and sweatpants, is skating during the Rangers optional morning skate in Dallas. (NYR)
Kreider was seen taking shots on Henrik Lundqvist and skating with skills coach Mark Ciaccio.
David Quinn said on Monday that Kreider is “coming along, coming along and making good progress. He’s walking with less than a limp so that is a good sign.”
Jeff Gorton said last week that the prognosis for Kreider’s fractured foot was likely to be 4-6 weeks.
Jeff Gorton spoke with EJ Hradek at the GM meetings and said (NHL Network)
On the trade deadline and keeping Kreider, “I think that, first of all, our team has played particularly well in recent time here and up until the home and home with Philly we were about 9-1, had a nine-game winning streak on the road, things we were really proud of with where our group is at. It was important, with Kreider in particular, that he’s a big piece of the team and if we are going to move it forward, we have a lot of young players, we need some guys that have been around and impactful to our team and Chris is a core piece. We felt like it was a priority to keep him and move forward with our group. At his age, the way he keeps himself in condition, his production, the way he skates, he’s taylor-made for the NHL. That was important for us. The trade with Brady Skjei, it was a move that we felt like the future of our defense is in pretty good shape and having the flexibility moving forward. We are going to have other players that we have to sign and you always have those issues, the cap gets in your way sometimes and this might be one of those times.”
On the Kreider prognosis, “we are obviously hopeful sooner than later but with these things, it’s weight bearing when you break your foot. I think that if you look over time, some of the people that have had the same type of injury, you are looking at 4-6 weeks as probably realistic. I know Chris is looking at it as being back sooner and if you see the kind of condition he’s in and his work ethic it’s hard to bet against him. We are hopeful sooner than that and take it one game at a time without him.”