‘If the Islanders came up behind the Sabres and yelled boo, the Rangers busted through the front door with a chainsaw in one hand and an axe in the other. As Lindy Ruff supposedly told Rangers people after Game 6, “You scared the hell out of us.” Put less delicately, brown was added to the Sabres’ color scheme: formally, midnight blue, maize and Hershey’s skid.’