from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
His signature is all over recent Rangers history. You can’t miss it. Just as no one, but no one, could miss him down here on Thursday night.
The. National. Hockey. League. Saw. Chris.
Number 20 came about as close as possible as pulling a No. 11, for it was Chris Kreider, the senior Ranger, who recorded a natural hat trick in the third period to enable the Rangers to overcome a 3-1 deficit and record a Game 6 series-clinching 5-3 victory over the Canes.
It will mark the Blueshirts’ fifth trip to the conference final in the 13 years since Kreider joined the team fresh out of Boston College for the first round of the 2012 tournament. He was there for Adam Henrique. He was there for Jonathan Quick. He fairly famously crashed into Carey Price one time. He was there for the Tampa Bay letdown. He was there for The Letter.
And Kreider was there in the locker room after the second period Thursday. He stood up and said he would get one. He lied. He got three.
Mark Lazerus of The Athletic on the Carolina Hurricanes,