MONTREAL — This was a twist on the old “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t,” for in this Game 5 on Thursday night, just when you became convinced you might never see Chris Kreider again make a play for the Rangers, there you saw No. 20 popping into the picture again and again and again.
“You stick with it. You persevere,” Kreider told The Post. “I’m not the only player to go through a tough time. You don’t put your head down. You make adjustments. You don’t let the valleys overwhelm you or demoralize you.
“You stay with it and trust that if you do, good things will happen.