The Rangers we’ve come to know hit the ice in overtime of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final on Friday night at Madison Square Garden.

The team that rises in high-pressure situations.

The team that can gut it out when it has to.

The team that coined “No Quit in New York” as its mantra for a reason.

Once Barclay Goodrow scored 14:01 into the extra period to snag a 2-1 win over the Panthers and even up the series at one win a piece, the complexion of the series shifted in an instant as it heads down to Florida.

“Tonight was a huge game for us,” said Goodrow, who now has the same amount of goals (4) in 12 playoff games as he had in 80 regular-season games. “I think we weren’t completely satisfied with the way we played in [the 3-0 loss in] Game 1. Think we wanted to rebound with a better game, and I think we feel a lot better with how we played tonight.”

The Rangers were a lot crisper inside of their system and harder on the forecheck in this one.

And with Matt Rempe coming in for Kaapo Kakko, who was a healthy scratch in an Eastern Conference Final game for the second time in three years, the 6-foot-8 ½ forward had the impact on the building that he always does.

The Garden crowd even cheered when Goodrow was kicked out of the faceoff circle and Rempe stepped in to win the draw.

It all allowed the Rangers to strike first with their first goal of the series.

The second line bulldozed back into the offensive zone and went straight for the net as Adam Fox fed Vincent Trocheck for the easy tap-in and the 1-0 lead at the 4:12 mark of the first period.

Alexis Lafreniere knocked over Carter Verhaeghe in the process and drew the ire of the Panthers forward, causing a scrum to break out as the Garden crowd sang the goal song.

“I liked the start,” head coach Peter Laviolette said. “I liked the first eight minutes or so, 10 minutes maybe. We were good defensively, putting pucks behind them, trying to be physical.”

The Rangers earned a power play out of all the extracurricular activities, but the Panthers penalty kill has shackled the top unit so far in this series. After going 0-for-2 in Game 1, the Blueshirts went 0-for-4 in the Game 2 victory, including a four-on-three opportunity for 1:25 in the second period.

But the Panthers power play evened the game at one-all at the end of the opening frame on a goal from Verhaeghe.

That score carried through the second and third periods, during which it felt like the Panthers — once again — had the upper hand at times. The Rangers were also down to 11 forwards by the second half of the middle frame after Jimmy Vesey absorbed a massive hit from Panthers forward Ryan Lomberg and missed the remainder of the game.

Struggling to connect on their rush opportunities, the Rangers seemed to be consistently getting knocked off the puck in transition. The Panthers broke up most odd-man rush chances and were first to most pucks.

Nevertheless, the Rangers worked through the bruising hits, the difficulties they had in transition and the stretches of suffocating moments in their own end to pull out a much-needed victory.

It appears that every victory against this Panthers team will be no small feat.

For right now, this feat belongs to the Rangers.

“I think it was just more emphasis on bringing our A-game tonight,” Trocheck said. “We didn’t love the way we played in Game 1, we didn’t love our execution. I thought we came out right from the jump with more energy. Our forecheck was a lot better, we didn’t give them very much. I think overall we just liked our game a lot better.”