Chris Kreider knows the last couple months of Henrik Lundqvist’s tenure with the Rangers couldn’t have been easy on The King.
The face of the franchise for 15 years, Lundqvist was reduced to a scarce third-string role amid the emergence of the younger, promising Igor Shesterkin and the organization’s preference to make him a tandem with backup Alexandar Georgiev.
Lundqvist handled the end of his reign on Broadway with grace and understanding. Not even the looming unknown of what was next in his career could get in the way of the Swedish goaltender’s will to win, Kreider recalled after a practice this week ahead of“That was honestly one of the most impressive things about the time that I played with Hank,” said Kreider, who was Lundqvist’s teammate for eight seasons.
“When you think about to some of those games, but even more so, some of those practices, when we lost in a shootout and he took like 50 breakaways after practice and guys just didn’t have any moves left — and he’s stopped like 50 in a row or something absurd,” he said. “But he was just the kind of guy who was so internally driven, knew exactly who he was as a goaltender and just demanded so much from himself and his teammates. Real special guy to be around.
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