Chris Kreider’s 13 seasons with the New York Rangers never involved dealing with which door the visiting team at Madison Square Garden uses to get on the ice. That’s why he needed directions when his new team, the Anaheim Ducks, hit the ice for their morning skate prior to their game against the Blueshirts on Monday night.
“No,” he told the assembled media when asked if he’d ever been in the visitors’ locker room, then nodded when asked if he needed to be shown the door the visitors use to take the ice at the Garden.
Kreider’s 912th NHL game will be the first at MSG as a member of the visiting team.