PHILADELPHIA — The road trip isn’t over. The Rangers still have an away game Saturday in Philadelphia against the Flyers to worry about, but the West Coast part of it is behind them now, and after an up-and-down 10 days, they come back East with a 2-2 split of the four games in the Pacific time zone and remain entrenched in third place overall in the league with a 24-10-4 record and 52 points.
And, according to Chris Kreider, they’ve learned something about their organizational depth. It’s good.
"It kind of felt like one step back, two steps forward, in a lot of ways,’’ Kreider said after Thursday’s 3-0 win over San Jose.