Rangers know they are playing with fire

The Rangers’ 15 goals through their 2-0-1 start represent their highest total after three games since the 1983-84 club pumped in as many in a 3-0-0 getaway. Not only that, 11 of this club’s goals have come at five-on-five.

But the Blueshirts are also yielding too many chances, specifically far too many Grade-A opportunities.

The doorstep in front of Igor Shesterkin has too often served as a welcome mat. The team has survived this Week of Living Dangerously quite well, but this is not particularly the template for sustained success.

“I don’t think there should be a whole lot of give-and-take. We shouldn’t be giving up chances to get chances the other way,” Vincent Trocheck, whose dynamic line with Artemi Panarin and Alexis Lafreniere has been doing that a bit too often, told The Post. “I think we need to focus more on the sticky side of the puck, we’ve been a little bit sloppy and our talent has taken over.

“Even against Utah [OT defeat] it never became lopsided in their direction entirely because our talent took over and scored five goals. But defensively, it starts with turnovers. I think we’re turning over the puck in the wrong spots sometimes.

“That’s going to happen with a lot of skilled guys trying to make plays, so you do have to get back in the zone and carry out your assignment,” No. 16 said. “It starts with your arrival, you have to know where you’re going, it’s not coming back and over-back-checking, trying to do too much doing someone else’s job.