So Matt Rempe returned to the lineup for Monday’s Backyard match in opposition to the Lightning after lacking 4 video games with an unidentified upper-body damage. The fourth-line winger changed fourth-line winger Brett Berard due to course that’s the way it works.
However the truth of the matter is that Chris Kreider may have come out as a wholesome scratch with out anybody notably noticing the results of No. 20’s absence on the ice and with out anybody within the gallery second-guessing head coach Peter Laviolette’s choice.
The Rangers had six video games left to play when taking the ice on Monday. That is the portion of the season the place we must be counting up Kreider’s profession accomplishments on his method to a franchise document twenty fourth postseason sequence.
You didn’t know that, did you, that Kreider’s 23 postseason sequence sporting the Blueshirt tied him with Henrik Lundqvist because the standard-bearer for this woebegone franchise, or that his 13 sequence victories — 5 instances going to the ultimate 4, in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2022 and 2024 — put him one forward of the King in that class?
