It's not as if the Rangers needed a helping hand. But catching the Sabres on the second leg of a back-to-back could possibly cure the worst of hockey ills.
By way of a historically good first period, the Rangers recorded a season-high in goals and mercifully put down Buffalo 6-1 Saturday night at the Garden.
The Blueshirts (21-11-4) scored three power-play goals in a span of 2:32 in the first, eventually going up 4-0 in the opening frame en route to their 10th win in their past 11 games.
The last-place Sabres (14-23-3) had lost to the Panthers in Buffalo on Friday, and had won once in their previous eight games while coming in with a horrific minus-54 goal differential.
Entering the second period, the Rangers tried to sit back — but the Sabres were so lifeless, they just wouldn't let the Blueshirts settle down. The lead grew to 5-0 when Carl Hagelin got one to go in off the back of defenseman Mike Weber at 2:26.
Just 22 seconds later, Drew Stafford got one back for the Sabres, following a play when Cody McCormick had pushed Ryan McDonagh into Henrik Lundqvist, thus interfering with the Rangers' goalie.
But how mad could Lundqvist really get when the goal made it 5-1?
Maybe just to make him feel better, Jesper Fast got one — after a review — to take a 6-1 lead into the third.
It was an absolutely wild first period, with the Rangers getting three successive power plays — successive in the most literal way, as in one right after the other. The first was an Andrej Meszaros trip, and that led to a Derick Brassard redirection goal at 8:46 to make it 1-0. Before the next face-off, the Sabres were called for an unsportsmanlike conduct for what was assumed to be berating the officials from the bench, and that resulted with Chris Kreider sweeping in a breakaway and netting a backhand, going up 2-0.
Yet as Kreider was going to the net, he was hooked by McCormick, and because a goal can only negate one penalty at a time, the Blueshirts started the next face-off with another man-advantage, this one ending with Rick Nash flipping one in from the left post and taking a 3-0 lead.
The Rangers had scored three power-play goals in a matter of 2:32, and the Garden was agape.
It was the first time the Rangers scored three power-play goals in one period since Feb. 4, 2010, a game during which they actually scored four goals on the man-advantage and lost to the Capitals 6-5. It was the fastest three power-play goals they had scored since Nov. 21, 1995, when they got three in 1:10 against the Penguins in a 9-4 win.
Just for good measure, they finished this first period with a goal from Dan Boyle, a nasty wrist shot from the left dot that beat Michal Neuvirth over his near-side shoulder — and got him pulled from the game in exchange for Jhonas Enroth, as if it made any difference.
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