So the question, and it’s a pertinent one, is whether the Rangers would have anyone policing the ice if the club were to waive Tanner Glass.
For two straight games, the answer has been yes, as supplied by Chris Kreider.
Saturday in New Jersey, Kreider took umbrage and responded when Dan Girardi was cracked with a high stick. Monday at the Garden, it was Kreider again stepping in, burying R.J. Umberger at 15:39 of the third, seconds after Philly defenseman Radko Gudas took a nasty run at Derek Stepan in open ice that just missed.
Kreider was hit with a bogus boarding penalty, but the Blueshirts were awarded a power play when both Gudas and Wayne Simmonds took roughing penalties for going after the Blueshirts’ specimen of a winger.