The Rangers have proven already this season that they can win in a multitude of ways, never better illustrated than the back-to-back one-goal victories they posted this weekend.

One day after Peter Laviolette shook up his line combinations to spark a rousing comeback victory in Nashville, the Rangers received a hat trick from leading scorer Artemi Panarin to build a three-goal lead in the third period before holding on for their fifth win in six games, a hairy 6-5 victory over the Sharks at the Garden.

“That was a wild one,” Laviolette said after the Rangers improved to 18-4-1, the best record in the NHL. “I liked the way we competed after coming in [Saturday] night. … You were thinking at 6-3 that it was over. It wasn’t over.

“We could have been a little better at the end, but the guys fought really hard under the circumstances and we got ourselves a win.”

Despite the late slippage, much of this latest win had to do with Panarin, who registered his fifth career hat trick and first this season by 4:41 of the third period.

He leads the Rangers with 15 goals and 35 points in 23 games ahead of a two-game road trip this week to Ottawa (Tuesday) and Washington (Saturday).

“It’s a great feeling, but we are trying to be more focused,” said Panarin, who also earned an assist for his first four-point game of the season. “We just lost focus, we played back and forth, like a preseason game, and we have to play better for sure.”

Laviolette had juggled his lines in the second period of Saturday’s 4-3 win in Nashville, most notably flipping left wings Chris Kreider and Panarin on his top two units.

But Kreider was back with Mika Zibanejad on Sunday night, with Johnny Brodzinski (two assists) replacing Blake Wheeler on the other side.

Panarin was shifted back alongside Vincent Trocheck, with Wheeler skating on the right side on Nick Bonino’s line, with rookie Will Cuylle on the left.

“It served a purpose,” Laviolette said about the previous day’s switches.

Former Rangers draft pick Anthony Duclair opened the scoring with a breakaway deke past still-unbeaten veteran backup Jonathan Quick (7-0-1) 3:50 into the game.

But Panarin tied it with a power-play wrister through traffic at 8:44 past former Devils goalie Mackenzie Blackwood to become the third player in franchise history with a season-opening home point streak of at least 10 games, joining Mike Rogers (15 games in 1983-84) and Wayne Gretzky (10 in 1996-97).

“He’s always been a really good player, really I think an elite player,” Laviolette said. “But when you watch him day in and day out, when you watch the plays that he makes and the things he does, I think you appreciate him more.”

Panarin evened the score again with a rebound stuff following Trocheck’s wraparound attempt, just 34 seconds after Ryan Carpenter — who appeared in 22 games for the Rangers in 2022-23 — had scored with 7:39 left in the period.

Kreider then fed Zibanejad from behind the net for a roofer at the right post for a 3-2 lead with 1:18 to go. It was Zibanejad’s sixth goal this season, but only his third while skating five-on-five.

Jacob MacDonald tied it with a one-timer on the power play, but Cuylle split the San Jose defense and buried his first in 11 games at 16:03 for a 4-3 lead heading into the third.

Panarin, who had a four-goal game last season against Carolina, boosted the lead to two with a net-crashing backhanded score 4:41 into the third, prompting the customary raining down of hats to the ice from the Garden crowd.

Panarin also assisted on Miller’s goal with under seven minutes to go, which turned out to be important insurance as Fabian Zetterlund and Alexander Barabanov also beat Quick for a 6-5 game with 4:10 left.

“If that game ends 6-3, there probably aren’t these questions. But it ends 6-5. I actually thought the third period was our best period,” Laviolette said. “[The late goals] set you back and it gives you a different flavor in your mouth, but we reset after that and finished it out.”