It was 220 days in the past that Chris Kreider woke as much as a bunch of caps on his entrance garden that had been left in recognition of his third-period hat trick within the earlier evening’s Recreation 6 in Carolina that clinched the second-round collection.
The Presidents’ Trophy winners had been advancing to the convention finals for the second time in three years, and Kreider, a Blueshirt because the 2012 playoffs, was having his No. 20 fitted for eventual presentation on the Backyard’s pinwheel ceiling.
Now, simply over seven months later, Kreider turned the most recent sufferer of the Rangers’ free fall that reached 4-13 with a 5-0 no-show defeat to the Devils on the Rock when the winger was designated as a wholesome scratch by head coach Peter Laviolette.
Wait a second. What am I saying? Kreider, a wholesome scratch for the primary time since John Tortorella’s reign behind the bench ended following 2012-13, was no sufferer. In reality, he has been a co-conspirator in each his and his crew’s demise over the previous month’s implosion.
