I think we’ve seen the end of The Kids.

Well, not literally.

Maybe literally.

The Luxury Liner known as The Good Ship Ranger turned into the S.S. Minnow while sailing to and frow across the Hudson, springing so many leaks that it simply sunk into a river of despair.

All year, there was always the possibility that these Blueshirts would be better than last year’s conference finalists but lose in the first round. That is the nature of competition. That was always out there.

A seven-game loss would not necessarily have been deemed catastrophic, certainly not to a team as good as the Devils. It happens.

But a performance as unworthy as the one in Monday’s 4-0 Game 7 defeat does not happen. You know how so often it’s not what you say but the way you say it? I certainly do, hearing that from my mom throughout my adolescence.

It’s not that the Rangers lost, it’s the way they collapsed against New Jersey while showing a mystifying lack of urgency, resolve and poise after taking a 2-0 lead in the series that was probably achieved much too easily for their own good.

That is what has raised so many alarm bells about the future of the franchise. That is what has created a smorgasbord of issues for president-general manager Chris Drury to confront.

There will be no knee-jerk reaction here to the future of head coach Gerard Gallant, who has steered the team to 110- and 107-point seasons in his two years behind the bench, with one trip to the conference finals as notches in his belt. There should be no rush to judgment here and there won’t be from Drury, who operates methodically and without knee-jerk emotion.

Gallant has his faults: He is probably too stubborn, he is probably too loyal to veterans and he may not make in-game adjustments as quickly as needed. He also presided over a team that came up with three no-shows in the final five games of a playoff series. If the team had a disastrous fortnight, the coach is part of the team.

But sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. The Rangers marquee stars raved about their coach last season after he succeeded David Quinn. Constant flux is not what this organization needs. It would be folly to dismiss Gallant in order to hire a recyclable, just because.

The roster needs reconstruction and that won’t be easy to do given the no-move clauses owned by Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad, Chris Kreider, Jacob Trouba and Vincent Trocheck and the tight cap squeeze Drury will confront this offseason.

The Rangers, as I have been saying for years, need a line with a lockdown mentality and matchup capability. But I am not sure how Drury would go about that while locked in with Zibanejad, Trocheck and Filip Chytil down the middle. Not one is a checking center. Maybe, and this is probably indicative of the type of knee-jerk reaction Drury and the staff should avoid, but maybe this is the time to revisit the notion of moving Chytil to the wing on either of the top two units. See why I am a columnist?

I cannot even begin to explain Artemi Panarin’s series. The notion that No. 10 is going to be willing to waive his no-trade seems as cockamamie to me as being able to find a team that would be willing to take the 31-year-old’s contract that has three years to go at an annual cap hit of $11,642,857 per.

Plus, there is this: The Rangers probably wouldn’t make the playoffs without Panarin, who is eighth in the NHL in points (68-178-246) and points-per-game (1.24) over his four seasons on Broadway. You can’t win the Cup if you can’t make the playoffs.

Panarin was a letdown. Zibanejad, who burrows so deeply into his own head when things don’t go his way that his introspection gets in the way, was a letdown. Adam Fox, who just faded away both at even-strength and on the power play on which he refused to shoot, was a letdown. Trocheck, ditto.

But the performances of the young’uns who gained such valuable experience through last year’s 20-game playoff run (right?) added up to perhaps the biggest collective letdown of the postseason. That includes K’Andre Miller as well as Chytil, Kaapo Kakko and Alexis Lafreniere, all of whom regressed to varying degrees.

If there is limited roster maneuverability with the no-move veterans, then Drury is looking at what would probably become a very unpopular option of dealing (at least) one of this quartet. Miller, a pending restricted free agent, would fetch the most in return, but boy, what a gamble trading him would be. Next in line is Lafreniere, also a pending free agent.

The third-line thing seems to not only have outgrown them but is kind of stifling each individual forward’s growth. It was fun while it lasted, truly it was, but the statute of limitations has hit as it pertains to evaluating Kakko as a second-overall pick and Lafreniere as a first-overall. That no longer holds relevance.

If Drury needs to restructure the roster — and he does after this stark reminder that there are not enough hard hats in the neighborhood — then here is where it starts.

Kids. Here today. Might be gone tomorrow.