All the ingredients exist to make Monday’s game a drama-filled soap opera when the Rangers face the Bruins for the first time since a Nov. 27 matchup in Boston.

In that one, the Blueshirts coughed up a late lead, lost Derek Stepan for nearly a month with two broken ribs and saw head coaches Alain Vigneault and Claude Julien get into a verbal tussle over a goalie interference call on Brad Marchand against Henrik Lundqvist.

Heading into Monday’s rematch, the Rangers insist they’re solely focused on improving their place in the Eastern Conference standings — a spot that took a hit over the past month.

“It was definitely an intense game, a game we wanted, but it’s in the past,” Lundqvist said after the team practiced in Tarrytown on Sunday. “You have to focus on your game. That’s the most important thing right now: For me try to stop the puck, not focus too much on them or what they’re doing. It’s about us and what we need to do.”

We’ll see if that happens.

Stepan took a big shot from Matt Beleskey in the loss — one Vigneault deemed to be late — but wasn’t called for a penalty.

The ramifications were very real for the Rangers, who were without Stepan until late December and the center said Sunday he just now is returning to form.

Like Lundqvist, though, Stepan said he’s not concerned with retribution.

“It’s unfortunate I came out of it with an injury that had me sit out for a month, but I don’t look back at it as anything other than a hockey play,” Stepan said. “We don’t have any time to worry about things that happened in the past, especially a hit like that. Our focus needs to be on the two points we desperately need going forward here.”

While Washington further established itself as the team to beat in the Eastern Conference with its overtime win at the Garden on Saturday, much of the rest of the conference is unsettled.

So while the outcome certainly is important, there will no doubt be at least some attention paid to Marchand and Lundqvist.

Marchand made contact with Lundqvist in November as he skated across the crease and was called for goalie interference. Both Marchand and Julien felt Lundqvist embellished on the play.

“He must have gotten hit with a cement block the way he went down,” Marchand said following the match. “I didn’t know I was that strong.”

At the time, Lundqvist bristled at the accusations.

“Diving is not an option for me,’’ the goalie said. “I’ve never done it. I won’t do it in the future either.”

Vigneault went on to defend Lundqvist, saying: “The way Hank conducts himself, on the ice, away from the rink, off the ice, the example that he sets — who would you rather have as a son: Henrik [Lundqvist] or Brad Marchand?”

But whatever feelings linger from that game have so far been suppressed.

“I think right now, with all the teams in our conference, points are so hard to get and so important,” Vigneault said. “I think their focus and definitely our focus is going to be on what we need to do on the ice to have success.’’

It was a sentiment echoed by Lundqvist.

“It’s in the past now,” Lundqvist said. “Let’s move on. Hopefully it’s a good hockey game.”