Claims extracted
12
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
8%
1 of 12 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
67/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Sports
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Stéphane Dubé and Alexis Lafrenière always have talked about expectations, an inescapable concept for Lafrenière given his draft slot (No. 1 overall), team (the Rangers) and, eventually, his contract ($7.45 million per season).
asserted
Dubé → talk → season
Dubé, Lafrenière’s longtime trainer and a former NHL conditioning coach, started in Pittsburgh midway through Sidney Crosby’s rookie year, and he’d point out to Lafrenière how Crosby, also a first-overall pick and also a former Rimouski Océanic star in the QMJHL, handled pressure.
asserted
Crosby → start → pressure
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SIGN UP NOWFor most of his career, though, Lafrenière diverged from the Crosby path.
asserted
Lafrenière → access → path
He didn’t have a 100-point, Rookie of the Year-winning campaign.
asserted
He → have → campaign
Lafrenière has yet to manage more than 28 goals or 57 points through his first six seasons.
asserted
Lafrenière → have → seasons
But the 25-year-old always believed that he could be the type of player who could score 50 and fully reach the potential he kept unveiling in flashes, that all the work would eventually pay off because, as he told Dubé this summer, “I want to win in New York.
uncertain
I → believe → York
Through eight games entering Thursday’s game against the Devils, Lafrenière is “playing like he means it,” Dubé said.
asserted
Dubé → enter → it
He became the breakout star of the league with seven goals — including a four-game goal streak — and 10 points.
asserted
He → become → streak
His promising 30-game stretch to close last season carried over.
asserted
stretch → close → season
And the chatter of Lafrenière being a disappointment has been replaced by the type that accompanies the potential emergence of a superstar.
asserted
that → replace → superstar
“He wants to perform because he’s a performer,” Dubé told The Post.
asserted
Dubé → want → Post
“He wants to be that guy.”
asserted
He → want → ?
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