There are times when a team just needs to get the win and run.

Well, the Rangers picked up their empty-net 4-0 victory over the Red Wings on Saturday night and got the hell out of trouble after a game in which the score could have – and probably should have – been reversed given how inadequately the visitors played.

It wasn’t just that puck luck was on the Blueshirts’ side.

They were buried in five-on-five play for two periods, being outscored in tries, 27-11, and gasping under a 12-3 deficit on high-risk chances.

The Red Wings’ expected goals percentage was a whopping 74.72 after 40 minutes.

Not once did Detroit have trouble entering the Rangers zone, where they spent most of the game. After the final horn there was still a zero next to their logo.

It was a frontier miracle.

The word “borderline” carries a lot of weight because this is who the Rangers have been as of late.

They still get by with otherworldly goaltending — this time it was Jonathan Quick’s 61st career shutout via 37 saves — and special teams play.

Detroit was playing on the second night of a back-to-back, as well as in their third game in four days.

No one would have known that unless they looked at the NHL calendar, given how stuck in the mud the Rangers looked five-on-five against the Red Wings.

Red Wings goaltender Ville Husso had an NHL-worst goals-against average (9.42) in just his second game of the season, but the Rangers didn’t give him much of a workload with 23 shots on goal.

After handily beating the Red Wings in their last two meetings in October by a combined score of 9-3, the Rangers didn’t get off to as strong a start as they did against Detroit earlier this season.

The Red Wings had the upper hand in five-on-five play for the first twenty minutes.

They pushed even harder in the second period, with the home team outscoring the Rangers 19-8.

And yet, the Rangers were able to take the lead in the second half of the opening period on a power play goal from Chris Kreider.

Playing with the lead helped keep the Blueshirts somewhat stable, but they were still under siege at times. It was clear how much the complexion of the competition had changed in just three and a half weeks.

It felt like the Red Wings could make the decision at any moment.

Jimmy Vesey then buried a feed from behind Sam Carrick’s Detroit net to double the Rangers’ lead at 16:52 of the second period.

Less than a minute later, Mika Zibanejad put Artemi Panarin ahead for the 3-0 score.

That’s about the time the Rangers started warming up the plane on the tarmac.

The third period was played much more evenly, which evened out the final stats a bit, but Detroit still had control of the ball.

Relying on their individual talent, both in scoring goals and in net, the Rangers’ team play is still in a state of disarray on both sides of the puck.

The best team in the NHL, the Winnipeg Jets, comes to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.

In any case, the Rangers will be back home soon to prepare.