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.

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.

When the Rangers’ longest-tenured player, Chris Kreider, was suddenly sidelined the day after his name was mentioned in president and general manager Chris Drury’s league-wide memo eliciting trade