Peter Laviolette confirmed that Chris Kreider will not play in the New York Rangers Friday afternoon game against the Philadelphia Flyers. Kreider has missed the past two games with an upper-body injury and is listed as day-to-day.

A sneaky move from Chris Kreider may have been designed to block a trade from the Rangers. Earlier this week I covered the shocking report that the New York Rangers were making serious attempts at trading two of the biggest names on their roster, and it sounds like at least one of those players may not be willing to go down quietly.

Kreider, the Rangers’ longest-tenured player, has found his name in rumors after GM Chris Drury expressed openness to moving key pieces to shake up the roster as first reported by Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman on Monday.