Rangers will earn coming bye week

The Rangers won’t be resting this weekend. The rest comes Monday, when their mandatory bye week commences.

They will earn that rest Saturday and Sunday, with back-to-back road games against the Coyotes and the Golden Knights.

It’s still early January, but coach Alain Vigneault and the Blueshirts admitted this trip carries a lot of weight.

And no one wants to go into the break on a losing streak, as the team did prior to Christmas.

“I’d like to think that everyone wants to go into this [break] on a good note. Feeling good about ourselves, feeling good about our game,” Vigneault said. “So we’ve got Arizona, who’s been playing better, and then we’ve got Vegas, who’s No. 2 in the league right now. We are going to have two tough matchups.”

“We definitely want to go in on a high note,” left wing Jimmy Vesey added. “We definitely need the four points.”

The looming rest time adds a bit of extra motivation, since the Rangers know they should have nothing left in the tank by Monday.

“There’s nothing to save [our energy] for,” Vesey said. “We want to play our best and leave it all out there.”

That could play to the Rangers advantage.

“We should be going into this weekend with the mindset that we need to win two games,” defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk said.

The snow storm that swept through New York delayed the Rangers’ travel plans, as they were supposed to fly out to Glendale, Ariz., on Thursday and could not.

Instead, the team held a 40-minute practice at their training facility in Tarrytown on Friday morning before embarking on their quick trip.

“It is what it is. We tried to get out [Thursday],” Vigneault said. “We always like when we go out West, with the two or three-hour time change, to get there a day before and have a practice there. Couldn’t get out, so it is what it is.”

Defenseman Marc Staal (maintenance) did not practice Friday.