The Rangers have faced top-tier goalie after top-tier goalie after top-tier goalie — the last three Vezina Trophy-winners before their own 2022 winner, Igor Shesterkin, to be exact — but it has had little to no effect on their ability to find the back of the net.

They hung three on the Lightning’s Andrei Vasilevskiy, seven on the Wild’s Marc-Andre Fleury and most recently, five on the Ducks’ John Gibson in a decisive 6-4 win over Anaheim on Monday night at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers’ lone loss of the season came against the Jets and the NHL’s top netminder in 2020, Connor Hellebuyck, whose 40-save performance Friday night limited the club to a season-low one goal.

Otherwise, the Rangers have totaled 16 goals in their first three wins — 10 of which have come at even strength — to carve out a 3-1-0 start.

“I think there’s a belief in this locker room that we can play,” said Mika Zibanejad, who along with Artemi Panarin, enjoyed a four-point night. “There’s an understanding that we need to work hard. We need to do the little things right. I think there’s obviously room for improvement, but so far so good.”

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Gibson, who owns a career .914 save percentage and 2.68 goals-against average over his decade with the Ducks, was pulled for the second game in a row after also conceding five goals to the Islanders two nights earlier. The Rangers never let him catch his breath, which landed Gibson on the bench to start the third period despite the fact that his 29 saves played a major role in keeping the Ducks in the game.

In limiting the Ducks to just nine shots on goal in the first period, seven in the middle frame and eight in the third, the Blueshirts easily spoiled the returns of Ryan Strome and Frank Vatrano to the Garden.

The offense may be buzzing, but the Rangers aren’t looking past their play on the other side of the puck. As impressive as 17 goals in four games is, the fact that the Rangers have given up three or four in the last three is also of note. There appears to be an understanding in the room that the defensive errors need to be cleaned up.

“I thought we played great, but I thought we got lackadaisical on the two goals in the third period,” Rangers head coach Gerard Gallant said of the goals from the Ducks’ Max Comtois and Derek Grant. “The game wasn’t won, but it was pretty close. I mean, we’re up three goals and both times we got lackadaisical and gave them good scoring chances and they buried it. That’s frustrating because you can’t do that.

“We take pride in our goals against and our goalies take pride in that, so we’ve got to finish games better than that.”

Panarin and Zibanejad combined for three goals, five assists and 13 shots on goal, while the rest of the Rangers’ top six followed suit. Perhaps that’s the most encouraging aspect of the Rangers’ start to the season. All three of the Rangers’ goals at five-on-five came from members of the top two lines — Panarin, Alexis Lafreniere and Kaapo Kakko — in addition to three goals from the top power-play unit.

Still, the Ducks managed to tie it up at 2-2 roughly a minute and a half into the second period after one-time Ranger Frank Vatrano scored at the end of the first and Trevor Zegras scored early in the second. And the Rangers’ three-goal middle frame was quickly minimized when Anaheim cut the home team’s lead to two 16:14 into the third period.

But isn’t it difficult to be critical when the team is making up for the defensive lapses with an uptick on offense?

“Yes and no,” Zibanejad said. “I think obviously we were happy with the scoring, offensively, but we know it’s not going to be like that every night. You can’t rely on scoring six or seven every night, so that’s obviously a big thing for us.”