The 21-year-old Kreider has two goals and one assist in 17 games with New York this season.
To make room on the roster, the Rangers assigned forwards Chris Kreider and Jesper Fast to Connecticut.
They later won, 4-3, when Chris Kreider scored in overtime, forcing a fifth game in Boston on Saturday.
Enforcer Brandon Mashinter, acquired from San Jose last month, and young forward Chris Kreider joined the lineup Tuesday.
Kreider scored the only goal for the Rangers in a 3-1 loss to New Jersey on Tuesday night.
Brad Richards and Chris Kreider also scored for the Rangers, who have won 11 of the last 12 meetings with Philadelphia.
"I took a lot of positives, " Kreider said in a telephone interview.
In 34 games with Connecticut, Kreider had five goals and seven assists.
All the young players who were supposed to be dynamite on the second line, like Carl Hagelin and Chris Kreider, have been anything but.
Rookie Chris Kreider left a drop pass for Arron Asham, whose slap shot from the right circle glanced off Holtby's glove and into the net.
Less than two minutes later, at 5:16, Kreider doubled the advantage.
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Chris Kreider and Kris Newbury are potential replacements for Clowe.
Rookie LW Chris Kreider was back in the New York lineup for the first time since Feb. 26, his last game before being sent down to Connecticut of the AHL. ...
Though the Rangers' offense barely registered for most of the game, Dan Girardi and Chris Kreider solved the ancient riddle of Brodeur early in the third period on their way to a 3-0 victory here.
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The game turned rougher moments later when New York forward Chris Kreider was struck under his visor by the stick of Boston's Tyler Seguin, who was following through on a shot just inside the blue line.
Assuming they made no other personnel changes, the Rangers by adding Parise would boast one of the deepest groups of forwards in the league: Parise, Richards, Gaborik, Ryan Callahan, Brian Boyle, and emerging young players in Chris Kreider and Carl Hagelin.
And promising rookie forward Chris Kreider spent the season in and out of the Rangers' lineup, ricocheting between the NHL and the team's minor-league affiliate in Hartford, scoring just three goals over 31 regular-season and postseason games after scoring five in 18 playoff games last season.
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