RALEIGH, N.C. — It’s been a minute since the Rangers and Tony DeAngelo shared a sheet of ice, but when the Blueshirts take on the ’Canes here Friday night in their next challenge, No. 77 will be on the other side.

He will be the one thriving after a year of enforced idleness that followed, well, come on, you know the story by now. Outburst(s). A post-game encounter with a teammate following a final warning. Waivers. Exile. Buyout.

And a new start away from the bright lights of Broadway.

“It’s going really well for me here,” DeAngelo, who signed a one-year free-agent deal for $1 million with Carolina following the buyout, told The Post this week. “I was a little rusty in training camp, though, I came back and it was, ‘Holy blank, I didn’t know I was out this long.’ So it took me a little bit to get going.

“But there are so many good players here and the pace has been so high from the start that I was able to get comfortable pretty early. It’s been real smooth. We started off 9-0 and it doesn’t get better than that.”

DeAngelo opened the season paired with Ian Cole. Now, he partners primarily with Jaccob Slavin.

“[Slavin is] a beast. I’ve never seen anyone in my life play defense like him, so it’s been perfect for me,” said DeAngelo, who has recorded 28 points (6-22) in 29 games and has been on for 32 goals for and just 14 against at five-on-five. “We complement each other. It’s been a perfect start. I couldn’t ask for anything better after a year off.”

The noise around DeAngelo has dissipated. He no longer presents himself as a lightning rod. At 26, the defenseman with a history of hot takes seeks medium cool.

“I talked to Carolina a lot before I signed,” said DeAngelo, citing owner Tom Dundon, GM Don Waddell and coach Rod Brind’Amour. “There was no BS. We talked about everything at length, going back to junior. They knew what they were getting and were comfortable with me.

“I told them I was done with social media. There was some stuff on social media that I probably shouldn’t have put out there, but I was never looking to be hurtful to anybody, but it was always spun in ways that I didn’t intend, racism which I never alluded to. So you know what, I’m done with it.

“I’m just going private on Instagram or whatever. No hot takes. Now I just post a picture here and there, and it’s been much nicer,” said DeAngelo, whose transition has been aided by teaming again with former New York teammates Brady Skjei, Jesper Fast and Brendan Smith. “I don’t get anybody calling me after a tweet. I just mind my own business. We just want to win here. That’s the goal. Nobody cares, nobody wants to hear about this and that. I know New York is a much different market and I probably played right into it but it’s been nice to be off and not have to worry about the noise.”

DeAngelo had nothing but praise for the life experience of playing for the Rangers. If there is regret over some of his behavior in New York, the Jersey native regrets being placed on waivers by then general manager Jeff Gorton following his postgame contretemps with Alex Georgiev on Jan. 30, 2021.

“Things had gotten so good that it’s terrible, really, the way things fell apart there at the end,” said DeAngelo, who had 53 points (18-35) in 2019-20 that led to a two-year, $9.6 million contract. “It’s a great honor to play for the Rangers and to play at Madison Square Garden, I talk about it all the time to these guys to the point where [teammate Vincent] Trocheck makes fun of me because of all the stories I tell about New York.

“I would never talk bad about the organization because of the way they treat people, players, their families. I’m sure there is regret on both sides. There is on my side, for sure. I know they didn’t want to put me on waivers. It wasn’t just, ‘Tony is going to get put on waivers.’ But I did disagree with the way that was handled.

“That’s one thing I would never be shy to say that bugged me,” said DeAngelo. “Because of my reputation, just being let go like that painted a light on me that created the situation where no one would take me. I thought that trying to trade would have been the right thing to do instead of it turning into a fiasco where there were false stories written about me and all kinds of things that didn’t need to be there.”

That, though, is in the rearview, much as the traffic to the tunnel to Manhattan from his place in Hoboken. DeAngelo is thriving these days even if you don’t hear so much about him. Or perhaps that’s because you don’t hear so much from him.

Low Maintenance Tony.

“But maybe it has all worked out for the best,” said DeAngelo. “Because without that, I wouldn’t be in Carolina.”