GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Rangers didn’t have much go their way Wednesday night, but two points did.

Trailing by a goal with just over 5 ½ minutes left in regulation, the Rangers were gifted two consecutive power-play opportunities on undisciplined penalties from the Coyotes that the visiting team capitalized on to make up for a lackluster game with a 3-2 win in front of a crowd of 11,380 that featured mostly fans in blue at Gila River Arena.

After Coyotes winger Phil Kessel was called for interference at 13:14 of the third, Mika Zibanejad sniped one from the top of the left circle to knot the game 2-2. Arizona then blew the game with just under three minutes left on the clock when they were called for too many men on the ice, which Kaapo Kakko made the Coyotes pay for with his second goal of the night.

The Rangers got off to a flat start and seemed to be chasing for much of the contest, losing puck battles and struggling to enter the offensive zone at times. Things took a turn for the worse when star winger Artemi Panarin went to the locker room relatively early on in the second and never returned.

Head coach Gerard Gallant said after the game that Panarin suffered a “minor lower-body” injury and that he is “day-to-day.”

Chalk it up to it being the Rangers’ second game in as many nights after facing an energy-draining Avalanche team, but the Coyotes are a rebuilding squad that had the fewest wins in the NHL entering Wednesday’s game.

There were moments where the Rangers made Arizona look like a much better team than it actually is.

“We want to win every game not matter what,” said Zibanejad, who registered his sixth multi-point game of the season with an assist on Kakko’s first tally in the second to go along with his own goal. “Obviously, there’s teams that are higher in the standings and whatnot, but I don’t think they made it easy on us today. They were working hard. It’s the NHL, you can’t take any night for granted and I think we had to fight hard tonight.

“But I think we’ve been talking about it all year, it’s the two points that matter and we move on.”

Gallant shuffled the forward lines after sticking with the same combinations for a lengthy stretch. Filip Chytil was scratched for the first time since March 1, 2019. Without Chytil, Barclay Goodrow was bumped up to the third line and Greg McKegg centered the fourth unit.

Asked if the decision to scratch Chytil, who has three goals and four assists in 25 games, was performance based, Gallant said, “They usually are.”

“It’s just a one game thing, so we’ll see where it goes next game,” Gallant said. “Sometimes you need lessons, I’m not saying that was a lesson tonight. But sometimes, you know. Kegger has been a great guy for us, he’s good in the faceoff circle, he kills penalties a little bit. We’ll see where it goes.”

Keith Kinkaid, making his season debut in net with Igor Shesterkin still on injured reserve, made 29 saves in the win. He saw a bulk of the action in the opening 20 minutes, in which the Rangers were outshot 13-9.

“Just one of those nights where you have to battle,” Zibanejad said. “Might not be the prettiest, but it’s two points and that’s the most important thing.”