After a dreary 4-0 loss to the New York Islanders on Thursday, the New York Rangers returned the favor with a 5-0 win on Saturday.

Alexandar Georgiev had a 23-save for the shutout.

“I was 100 percent sure we weren’t going to be as bad as we were the other night, that’s for sure,” Rangers coach David Quinn said. “I have to give a bunch of our leaders a ton of credit. Jacob Trouba stood tall tonight, played one of his best games as a Ranger, but the stuff he did in between the last game and tonight went a long way in putting us in the right mindset. Mika [Zibanejad], [Chris] Kreider, [Panarin], all these guys.

“Nobody was happy with what happened the other night. It was an embarrassing performance, but it’s all about how you respond to that. I’m hoping everybody is off the George Washington Bridge by now and everything is righted after tonight.”

Nothing would lose jobs quicker than a repeat of the season opener.

“A lot of work has been put in the last 10 months, a lot of gym, a lot of mentally staying sharp,” Georgiev said. “I felt in [training] camp my game was good. [I] came confident into the game and brought the same game as in the camp to this game.”

The Rangers benefited from two goals each by Pavel Buchnevich and Artemi Panarin (one on the power play).

“It’s especially important against this team to score early because if you don’t score early and you let them score, then they tighten the defense and it’s very difficult to penetrate,” Buchnevich said. “We understood that part and we were fortunate to get the goal and get them to open up, and the rest came.”

Kaapo Kakko scored in the middle frame on a snap shot from the right circle for a 4-0 lead.

“The first four goals are all stuff that we did,” Isles head coach Barry Trotz said. “Turnovers, bad plays, poor execution. We were junk today.”

The Rangers 1-for-6 on the power play.

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Ilya Sorokin got the start for the Islanders when Semyon Varlamov  was injured in warmups; he made 27 saves in the loss.

“With Ilya, we hung him out to dry,” Trotz said. “I don’t think we played that well. Obviously, we put him in a real tough circumstance. We did it to ourselves injuring ‘Varly’ in the warmup. To me, it’s almost unacceptable. To me, it’s like running your quarterback over in warmup. Players got to recognize that your goaltender is almost your most important player on your team. You’ve got to get him warmed up. Guys are not thinking.

“It wasn’t fair to Ilya, it wasn’t fair to Varly, the way the guys warmed him up. It started in warmup and it just sort of carried over through the whole game.”