The Rangers took the third period by the horns Wednesday night.

First, the equalizer came off the stick of K’Andre Miller, and then Jimmy Vesey netted the game-winning goal with 4:15 left in regulation to secure a 3-2 win over an overachieving Detroit team at Madison Square Garden.

Snapping the Red Wings’ three-game winning streak, the Blueshirts sent a game-high 19 shots at Detroit goalie Ville Husso over the final 20 minutes to make it happen.

“There was persistence from our guys to just keep pushing there in the third,” head coach Peter Laviolette said after the win, which improved the Rangers to 16-4-1 on the season. “Finally found a way, it seemed like we weren’t going to have luck getting the goals we needed in order to be successful tonight. Really, I just think the perseverance in the third period, we just kept our foot on the gas and kept pushing.”

Vesey, who has had an impactful last handful of games, batted the puck out of midair to regain the lead for the Rangers. The goal was brought under review for a potential high stick, but it ultimately stood.

“Not going to lie, I didn’t want to look at the replay,” Vesey said. “My initial reaction was that it was good.”

After Miller blasted a one-timer from his knee to even the score, 2-2, and tie the game up for a second time, the Rangers found their second wind.

The game turned into a bit of a track meet as both teams traded chances.

Husso wasn’t giving up any easy ones, while Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin stood tall and finished with 25 saves.

The Rangers kept themselves in it despite being down a goal, which has become a trait of this team over the last couple months.

“I think we had a lot of good looks that we weren’t able to capitalize on,” Mika Zibanejad said. “But I think we kind of just stuck to it and I think we kept creating chances. Finally went in. I thought maybe not our best game, but I thought we did a lot more better things than we did last game and even though it was 2-1 going into the third, I thought we still had belief in us coming back.”

Artemi Panarin opened the scoring in the second period to break a scoreless tie, which allowed the Russian winger to join Wayne Gretzky as just the second Ranger in the past 30 years to record a season-opening home point streak of at least nine games.

After Miller intercepted a pass in the neutral zone, Alexis Lafreniere sent a cross-zone feed to Panarin, who buried his 12th goal of the season to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead.

In a matter of 23 seconds later in the period, however, the Red Wings tied it up and pulled ahead.

Detroit was barely able to hold the zone on its second power play of the night before Moritz Seider capitalized with 12 seconds left with the man-advantage.

A Blake Wheeler turnover along the wall then led to Robby Fabbri sweeping in the go-ahead goal amid some passive Rangers.

This was the second time in the last three games that the Rangers allowed back-to-back goals in a matter of seconds.

The same thing happened in the first period against the Bruins, when Charlie Coyle and Morgan Geekie scored 24 seconds apart to knot the game at two-all.

Adam Fox was re-acclimated with his power-play responsibilities early in his first game back from long-term injured reserve, as the Rangers earned their only two stretches with the man-advantage in the first period. It was just one of those nights where the puck largely refused to find the back of the net.

“Missed opportunities or a goalie, I thought there was chances in every period to score,” Laviolette said. “Just couldn’t get off like we wanted it to.”