So I was talking to Chris Kreider a week ago about his team’s uncommon depth up front, and No. 20 immediately flashed back to his formative years on Broadway that inform his career.

Kreider, who joined the Blueshirts at age 20 for the 2012 playoffs just days after helping Boston College to the national championship in his junior year, went to the conference finals in three of his first four NHL seasons — including to the Cup final in 2014.

“You know what this reminds me of?” Kreider asked before he answered, “Our teams those years.”

Kreider often has referred to those seasons through a career in which he has ascended to sixth on the franchise’s all-time goal-scoring list. He has scored 261 goals in Blue, one away from tying Vic Hadfield, with only Rod Gilbert, Jean Ratelle, Adam Graves and Andy Bathgate — Rangers Royalty — ahead of the two left wingers.