Alexis Lafreniere vows to learn from his lost Rangers season

The commencement — 4 goals successful 7 games, straight pursuing a postseason wherever he collected 8 successful 16 — was promising for Alexis Lafrenière.

It each prompted a statement hold and a seven-year committedness that ensured he’d stay portion of nan Rangers’ new-look halfway good into nan future.

But nan remainder of 2024-25 — 13 goals successful his adjacent 74 games entering Thursday’s play finale against nan Lightning, and conscionable 3 since Feb. 5 — ended up being disastrous for nan 23-year-old winger.

Lafrenière knowledgeable extremity droughts of 13 and 14 games.

He grounded to prolong nan postseason magic and fell short of nan expectations his contract’s $52 cardinal value tag created.

He started to overthink much than he apt did successful erstwhile seasons while besides searching for a measurement to “get 1 to spell successful and consciousness amended afterward,” he told The Post connected Wednesday.

Rangers near helping Alexis Lafrenière (13), defended by Lightning near helping Brandon Hagel (38), skates toward nan extremity during nan first play connected Monday, April 7, 2025 AP

“Maybe a small for sure,” Lafrenière said of overthinking much than successful past seasons, “when you spell done agelong times of not scoring aliases whatever. For sure, you deliberation astir it erstwhile you’re connected nan ice. Yeah, wasn’t nan champion twelvemonth for sure.”

Those shortcomings will style his offseason, erstwhile nan Rangers will apt acquisition plentifulness of alteration but Lafrenière, fixed his deal, will stay a constant.

That stability, though, “comes pinch responsibility,” he said.

He’ll request to get stronger disconnected nan ice. Need to amended his skating while connected it. Need to amended astatine uncovering crevices that lead to amended chances, successful summation to getting to nan nett and to nan “tough areas.”

Head coach Peter Laviolette said that he has nan imaginable “to person a large effect successful nan game” conscionable for illustration personification specified arsenic Artemi Panarin, thing that materialized for nan Rangers erstwhile they needed it astir past postseason.

But aft a little spurt to commencement nan year, that advancement fizzled. Lafrenière, a erstwhile No. 1 wide pick, stalled.

And now, Laviolette said, “it’s astir consistency.”

“There’s ever gonna beryllium ups and downs from twelvemonth to twelvemonth — aliases moreover wrong of a year,” Laviolette said. “You do study from it. You effort to push guardant from that.”

Rangers near helping Alexis Lafreniere (13) skates against nan Vegas Golden Knights astatine Madison Square Garden. Danny Wild-Imagn Images

Sam Carrick was named nan recipient of nan Players’ Player Award, which was voted connected by Rangers teammates, while Panarin — pinch 37 goals and 89 points done 81 games — was named squad MVP by members of nan media. Panarin was besides announced arsenic nan media’s Good Guy grant recipient.

“Panarin’s astir apt speaks for itself,” Laviolette said of nan squad MVP and Players’ Player nods. “… You tin spot it successful nan measurement he plays nan game, nan effect that he has connected nan crystal is important to this team.

“With respect to [Carrick], that couldn’t person been to a amended guy, amended personification successful nan measurement he carries himself and handles himself successful nan locker room, what he does for nan squad retired connected nan ice. He plays a beingness game. He would spell successful and instrumentality up for immoderate 1 of his teammates successful a divided second.”

Longtime play-by-play broadcaster Sam Rosen, who has been a staple of Blueshirts games for 40 years, will telephone his last crippled Thursday night.