Chytil’s Cup confidence high after additions

The third-most senior Ranger feigned outrage.

“I am here for five years and one Hall of Famer comes in and now I have to move my locker?” Filip Chytil said, chuckling over the indignity of sliding one stall to his right so that Patrick Kane could squeeze in beside Artemi Panarin. “What is going on here?”

Chytil broke into a grin before answering his own rhetorical question in a conversation with The

Post.

“There is a reason we are getting these players, and that is because we want to win the Cup,” said Chytil — who also cited the trade for Vladimir Tarasenko, whom he set up for the three-on-three overtime winner in Philadelphia on March 1. “We have three great offensive lines, and we have four great lines overall.

“We have a lot of skill on our team, but we just have to play responsibly on defense and commit to the 200-foot game. We showed last year in the playoffs we can play against anybody and can beat anybody, so the addition of these two experienced players who won the Cup in their careers, that’s even better.”

➤ Head coach Gerard Gallant lectured the Rangers, and loudly, when a drill went awry toward the end of practice. There had been a few raised voices from the staff during the club’s 40-minute skate. For a minute, it seemed as if David Quinn had made his return.

“[Giving them] a little bit of a jolt at the end,” is the way Gallant characterized it. “I wasn’t happy. We’re trying to do a drill and they don’t want to execute it, so …”

➤ Chytil is the third-most senior Ranger behind Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad. He made his NHL and Blueshirts debut in the 2017-18 season opener.

He is sixth on the team in continuous service, however, also behind Adam Fox, Jacob Trouba and Artemi Panarin, who have been here since the start of 2019-20, while Chytil was in AHL Hartford until Oct. 29 of that season. He was promoted for good the same day and same way as Ryan Lindgren.

➤ The match in Pittsburgh on Sunday will kick off a bizarre stretch in which the Rangers and Penguins will hook up three times within four games, including consecutive contests at the Garden on March 16 and 18. The second wild-card Penguins are six points behind the Rangers and each team has 19 games to go.