The number cited by Chris Kreider upon the occasion of his first breakaway goal of the season in Montreal on March 26 was fictitious but not necessarily imaginary.
“I’m 1-for-72,” the self-effacing Kid K said after he’d beaten Mike Condon with a backhand after cutting across the crease — not through it — off a left wing sprint at 10:42 of the second period of the Rangers’ 5-2 victory.
And now, here we are nearly two weeks later, and Kreider could say that he is 4-for-75 following a binge that continued through Tuesday’s 3-2 victory over the Lightning at the Garden in which the winger got the third-period winner off a left side dash that he finished with a backhand flourish.