Igor will make trip to Pitt

Igor Shesterkin, who suffered a groin injury late in the Rangers’ victory Thursday at Prudential Center and who is listed as “day-to-day,” will accompany the Blueshirts to Pittsburgh for the two-game set that commences on Sunday. The goaltender will not play in at least the first contest, however.

To that end, coach David Quinn will either come back with Alexandar Georgiev, who was lukewarm in Saturday’s 6-3 victory over the Devils in Newark, or turn to 31-year-old Keith Kinkaid, whose last NHL start was on Oct. 30, 2019, while a member of the Canadiens.

Kinkaid, promoted from the taxi squad, has a career record of 65-56-20 with a .905 save percentage and 2.95 goalsagainst average in six NHL seasons, the first five of which were spent with the Devils.

“We’re going back and forth on that right now,” David Quinn said. “That’s something we’ll decide [Sunday] morning.”

Georgiev, who is 3-0 in his last four starts, surrendered a pair of questionable goals to the Devils on Saturday. He was on a seemingly unscreened 60foot right point dart from P.K. Subban in the first period and then kind of whiffed on a right dot wrister from Nathan Bastian late in the third period.

➤ Quinn said Jacob Trouba, who has missed eight games since breaking a thumb on Feb. 16, “is very, very close to playing and I’ll be stunned if we don’t see him on the trip.”

Mika Zibanejad, who got 19:00 of ice time, caught his skate in a rut during the final minute (Ulf Nilsson!) and left the ice gingerly, which is the same way he ultimately made his way to the room when the match had ended.

➤ Phillip Di Giuseppe was the healthy scratch up front while Anthony Bitetto, who had been nursing an unidentified lower body problem but is believed healthy, sat on the back end.