The Rangers proved that revenge is a dish best served on ice.

Three days after the Blue Jackets denied them their 11th straight win and in turn, a new franchise record, the Rangers got the last laugh in their third and final meeting with a double empty-net-goal abetted 4-1 victory over Columbus at Madison Square Garden.

The response was important and proved the Rangers can execute adjustments against the same team, a skill they’ll need to hone come late April in the playoffs.

The win, however, moves the Blueshirts into a first-place tie with the Canucks for the most points in the NHL.

“We have bigger goals that we want to accomplish,” captain Jacob Trouba said. “Just continue to build the confidence, the confidence in how we play, the confidence as a group. We haven’t gotten to where we want to be and it’s a building process.”

Yes, first-year coach Peter Laviolette and the Rangers sit atop the league with just two games left until the March 8 trade deadline and 22 contests remaining in the regular season.

They are the first of the league’s 32 teams to reach the 40-win milestone.

Chris Drury has necessary moves to make, but if the last three weeks have told the Rangers president and general manager anything, it’s that his team is worth the investment.

And with goalie Igor Shesterkin back at the top of his game — once again shown in another 30-save performance on Wednesday — the possibilities for the Rangers seem endless.

The fact that Artemi Panarin recorded his fourth three-point effort in the last seven games should also make even the most skeptical fan a believer.

“Regardless, the environment we’re playing in is still the same even though we’re at the top,” Panarin said through a translator after reaching 82 points on the season, which marks the fourth time the star Russian wing has put together an 80-plus point campaign since joining the Rangers in 2019-20.

“Our confidence is definitely up since January. We still have to have the same mindset. We have to come out there and win.”

Not enough has been made about the Rangers’ change in approach to faceoffs. Their team win percentage may be ranked in the top five in the NHL, but it’s the way they consistently look to make something happen off the draw nowadays that has upped their faceoff game.

That was how they got things started in the second period, when, off a Vincent Trocheck faceoff, Panarin won possession of the puck and whipped it in.

Trocheck later laid out Columbus forward Johnny Gaudreau, who hit the ice hard and missed the remainder of the middle frame before returning at the start of the third. After initially calling it a major in order to review the play, officials only penalized Mathieu Olivier for his retaliatory cross check on Trocheck.

The Rangers power play capitalized after Chris Kreider’s takeaway in the O-zone allowed him to set up Adam Fox for the 2-0 lead.

Despite Cole Silinger cutting the Blue Jackets’ deficit in half early in the third, Kreider and Panarin chipped in an empty-net goal each to close out a 10-1-0 February for the home team.

It was a strong month that was born from a bad one.

The dramatic turnaround revealed part of what this team is made of.

There’s so much left ahead, but the Rangers are on their way.

“Definitely an accomplishment, but like I said, just continue to build our game,” Trouba said of the Rangers tying the franchise record for the fewest games needed to reach the 40-win mark. “There’s no real trophies handed out right now. So, that’s great, but who really cares?”