Jonathan Quick perfect fit in Rangers’ explosive statement win

This was an amusement park kind of a game, one out of the ’90s when goals galore were always featured on the NHL menu. Tell me: When is the last time you saw both coaches call for a timeout within the opening 14:14 of a match?

It was 2-2 by then at the Garden on Saturday, the Rangers getting the first two before the Bruins squared it by scoring twice in 24 seconds. First it was Boston’s Jim Montgomery who expressed dissatisfaction. Not soon after, it was our very own Peter Laviolette.

Understand, these are not only two of the best teams in the NHL, but two of the best lockdown clubs in the league. That’s been both of these Eastern powers’ MOs through the first quarter of the season. Saturday, though, well, this was a horse of a different color.

Three days earlier in his last start, Jonathan Quick spun a 1-0 shutout. This was not that. Oh, the vagaries of this game.

“There were chances back and forth,” Quick said after the Rangers’ 7-4 victory elevated the team into first overall in the NHL with a .816 points percentage off a 15-3-1 start. “There’s definitely stuff we can learn from the game, but we were able to weather some of the craziness and clamp it down at the end.”

Again, not quite a quarter of the season behind them, the Blueshirts stand atop the NHL mountain. They began this eight-day week with a victory in New Jersey on Saturday, lost in Dallas on Monday, then responded by reeling off victories in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and at the Garden in this one.

If this was a challenge week, the Rangers responded. The sample size is not so small any more.

“I think we all know that we have a really good team, but I think we can just build off of this,” said K’Andre Miller, whose whippet of a drive from the left circle beat Linus Ullmark at 19:36 of the second to extend the club’s lead to 5-3. “I still don’t think we’ve played our best hockey yet, which is kind of scary and fun to say.

“I think figuring out what we have done to get all this success and keep it is the biggest thing.”

The Rangers got a pair of goals from the fourth line, with both Jimmy Vesey and Tyler Pitlick chipping in. Nick Bonino, fourth-liner by any other name, got his first. The Blueshirts got a pair from Chris Kreider, one on the power play and one on the penalty kill, to boost his total to 13, two off the league lead held by Nikita Kucherov. They got one goal on an extended delayed penalty. They scored — hang onto your hats — four goals at five-on-five. It was a bonanza, that’s what it was.

For the first 12:35, the Bruins did not get a shot on Quick. Over the next 21:26, the B’s owned a 22-6 edge in shots before the pendulum swung again. There was no form. But there was Quick, now 6-0-1, and the choice to go up against the Mighty B’s in this second half of the back-to-back that commenced Friday with Igor Shesterkin beating the Flyers.

Quick was surely the appropriate choice for this one given that his style is out of the ’90s. He is acrobatic. He plays on instinct and off reads. He is an adventure. He is an amusement park ride of a goaltender.

Who keeps the puck out of the net the way he has done throughout a career in which he has recorded 381 victories, 17th all-time and second among American-born netminders, 10 in arrears of Ryan Miller.

“I’ve known him for a while, training with him over the summers in Connecticut,” Kreider told The Post. “When we signed him, I thought, ‘Wow, we have Jonathan Quick.’

“And that’s how I feel now. He’s Jonathan Quick. He’s as advertised. He goes in there and battles. He’s vocal for a goaltender. He’s pumping up his teammates, in the room and on the ice, more than the usual goalie. He’s pumping up guys on the bench. He’ll give taps on the bench for a shot-block or defensive play.

“He’s hyper-flexible, strong and explosive,” No. 20 said. “I’m not all that good on breakaways but I can’t score on him on a breakaway, and I couldn’t in 2014.”

Ah, 2014, when Quick broke the Rangers hearts in the Kings’ five-game victory over Kreider and the Blueshirts in the final. I asked the winger if 2014 ever becomes the topic of conversation.

“I try not to talk about it, but it does come up from time to time,” Kreider said. “Whenever we have dinner and the bill comes around.”