It was Saturday night in San Jose, a scoreless game, when the Rangers went on the power play at 5:16 of the second period.

The Broadway Five took the ice, because of course they did. That would be Mika Zibanejad, Chris Kreider, Artemi Panarin, Vincent Trocheck and Adam Fox, the club’s five best offensive players.

There was a one-timer from Zibanejad, a deflection from Kreider that went wide, a Fox shot off the post and a Panarin drive that appeared to tick the crossbar on its way into the crowd for a stop of play at 6:20, 1:04 into the man-advantage.

This was the perfect opportunity to bring on the second unit consisting of Filip Chytil, Alexis Lafreniere, Kaapo Kakko, Jacob Trouba and either K’Andre Miller or, lately, Sammy Blais for the draw in the right-wing circle.