Rangers adamant current skid will have silver lining on the other side

The Rangers’ mental push to isolate the last month — culminating in a four-game skid — as just another tough stretch that every team endures throughout the course of an 82-game schedule is both warranted and necessary. Of course, there is a major difference between a rough patch coming in January after you already had built a 25-9-1 head start and a 7-8 middling rut following a breezy six games against lower-tier competition to open a campaign. It is only two months into the season.Thanksgiving is not typically a notable benchmark. The Blueshirts would be remiss, however, not to address their deficiencies with urgency. So where is the confidence in the team to turn it around sooner rather than later? “High,” captain Jacob Trouba said following Wednesday night’s 4-3 loss to the Hurricanes.

“Teams go through adversity.I think you’re a better team when you come out of the other side — and we’re going to come out of the other side.

We all know it’s hard to go through.I think throughout the year, there are ups and downs and that’s how you build a team.” This matchup against the Flyers on Friday in Philly suddenly has implications in the standings. The gap between the upper and lower echelon of the Metropolitan Division has grown — and the Rangers are on the wrong side of it.

A loss would allow the Flyers to tie the Rangers with 25 points. As of Thanksgiving morning, the Rangers were six points behind the Capitals, who are the surprise third-ranked team in the division.With their win over the Rangers on Wednesday night, the Hurricanes jumped over the Devils for first place in the Metro. The Rangers felt notably better about their performance against the Canes and see it as one they can potentially build off of. “We did enough to put ourselves in a good position to win [Wednesday night], sometimes it just doesn’t work out,” Reilly Smith said.

“There’s a lot of positives from [Wednesday night], I think we’ve got to keep ...