Patrick Kane missed the Rangers’ 6-3 win the Lightning on Wednesday, with head coach Gerard Gallant attributing the absence to maintenance and “lower-body.”

He labeled Kane as day-to-day, but called it “nothing.”

“I think next week, if it was this time, he’d be playing,” Gallant said pregame. “We’re being smart with him.”

Kane didn’t practice Tuesday, taking it as a maintenance day, and he was one of two players to participate in an optional morning skate Wednesday.

Following the skate, Kane told The Post that he needed to speak with trainers, “kinda talk it out a little bit, see what the decision is” for the final regular-season meeting between the Blueshirts and Lightning.

Without Kane, who has five goals and 10 points since his trade from the Blackhawks, the Rangers used 11 forwards and seven defensemen, though they finished with 17 skaters when Jacob Trouba exited early in the first period with an upper-body injury.

Jimmy Vesey moved up to the first line, with other wingers skating extra to accommodate Kane’s minutes.

Gallant said he wasn’t worried “one bit” about Kane’s absence impacting the recent shuffling for his top-six forwards.

The Rangers started their game against the Sabres on March 31 with a first line of center Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin and Vladimir Tarasenko, with a second line of Chris Kreider alongside center Vincent Trocheck and Kane, but the four wingers flipped lines mid-game.

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Even with Kane’s absence, the Rangers managed to score six or more goals for the 15th time this season, including two on the power play.

“A lot of teams are doing [rest], everybody’s doing that this time of the year,” Gallant said. “Guys aren’t playing. They’re taking a game off. Rest game here and there. So it’s not a big issue.”

Ryan Lindgren made his return to the Rangers’ lineup Wednesday, skating 18:48 and recording a pair of shots. He even picked up a roughing penalty when he jumped into a scrum in the second period.

Gallant said that Lindgren “looked good” and “solid” after missing 17 of the last 18 with a shoulder injury, forcing a recovery where, as he told The Post’s Larry Brooks on Tuesday, “it sucks to sit out, and definitely for this long, but I’m happy I did it.”

“We took a long time with him and we made sure,” Gallant said pregame. “I mean, we wanted to make sure he’s ready to go. Last time, he came back from one game and he wasn’t quite ready, but we feel 100 percent now.”

With two goals against the Lightning, Kreider snapped his tie with Vic Hadfield (262 goals) and moved into fifth place in franchise history for all-time goals.

But he didn’t reflect much when asked about the accomplishment postgame.

“We’ve got St. Louis [Thursday],” Kreider said.

In a pregame ceremony, Trouba was presented with the second annual Rod Gilbert “Mr. Ranger” Award, which goes to the Blueshirts player “who best honors Rod’s legacy by exemplifying leadership qualities both on and off the ice, and making a significant humanitarian contribution to his community,” the team said in a release