When Kevin Hayes was asked about the scary situation his good buddy Chris Kreider is facing, he reached for his left hip.
“You know,” he told The Post on Friday morning, “I had the same thing when I was in college. I had compartment syndrome, there was a clot there before in my leg.”
It’s unknown just exactly what Kreider had besides a blood clot in his right arm, set to keep him out of his first full game Friday night against the Red Wings at new Little Caesars Arena. But it was a shock to the system when he left a Garden match Wednesday against the Capitals after the first period when the swelling in his arm got too bad to ignore.