The sides submitted their salary requests on Wednesday for arbitration and while Kreider was seeking $4.75 million, the Rangers offered $3.2 million. National Hockey League analyst Aaron Ward reported that the last two years of the deal contain an 11-team no-trade clause.
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The agreement leaves just one key restricted free agent eligible for arbitration: Kevin Hayes, whose hearing is scheduled for July 27. Both JT Miller and Chris Kreider came in under expectations and all of the sudden the Rangers have flexibility to carry the amount of players they want or to make moves.
New York Rangers fans received good news this morning regarding Chris Kreider after trading Derick Barssard earlier in the week.
Kreider had 21 goals and 43 points in 79 games last season. The deal also carries an 11-team no-trade clause over the final two seasons.
The deal locks Kreider up through the 2019-20 season. Alex Ovechkin, Jonathan Toews, Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand, and James Neal were the others. He established career-highs in even strength goals (16) and hits (177), and he tied his career-high in goals in 2015-16. Kreider also led the Rangers in goals (15) and ranked second on the team in points (26) on the road this past season.
Kreider has played in 248 career National Hockey League games, all with the Rangers, recording 129 points (61 goals, 68 assists) and 224 penalty minutes. He scored twice in the Rangers’ five-game loss to the eventual-champion Pittsburgh Penguins during last season’s opening round.
In 65 career National Hockey League playoff games, Kreider has 20 goals and 13 assists.
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The Boxford, Mass., native was selected by the Rangers in the first round (19th overall) of the 2009 National Hockey League draft.
