Maybe there was some bad mojo left over at the Garden from the Knicks’ Game 7 loss to the Pacers on Sunday.

It’s difficult to determine which of the Rangers’ failed close calls will have kept them up, unable to sleep late into Wednesday and early Thursday morning.

Because there were a few of them, and each was worth lamenting in the wake of their 3-0 loss to the Panthers.

The Rangers didn’t have of a lot of shots on goal in the game, just 23, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have their chances. The best of their chances came as the second period was about to end.

Artemi Panarin worked the puck into the Florida zone and passed it to Adam Fox, who fed Mika Zibanejad in his office — the left dot.

Zibanejad, in his wheelhouse, unloaded a shot low and hard toward the right post of Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who kicked it aside a split second before the horn sounded.

The play came on the Rangers’ only power play of the first two periods, and the Bobrovsky save kept it 1-0 Panthers.

This chance came just three-plus minutes after the Rangers ended an uneasy stretch of nearly 15 minutes of the second period without a single shot.

Their last shot of that stretch came at 18:05 and their next shot after that came off the stick of Fox, who threw the puck in front of the Panthers’ net. Bobrovsky appeared to lose track of it with Rangers forward Alexis Lafreniere standing at his doorstep hoping to swat the rebound home.

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Bobrovsky got eyes on the puck at the last second and covered it up.

The Rangers’ scoring chances began fairly early. Their first was a blast off the stick of Vincent Trocheck less than five minutes into the game that hit Bobrovsky’s mask so hard it knocked it off and appeared to daze him for a moment. With the goalie’s mask knocked off, play was called for the moment for a faceoff.

With just more than six minutes remaining in the first period, Lafreniere took a feed from Panarin and, beating former Rangers defenseman Niko Mikkola, unleashed a sneaky shot that was saved by Bobrovsky.

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Three minutes after that chance, the Panthers took a 1-0 lead on a Matthew Tkachuk goal, which came with Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin screened by Fox as Tkachuk’s lefty shot went in with 3:34 remaining in the first.

That’s when the Rangers got their worst break of the night, with defenseman Braden Schneider on a breakaway rattling the right post with a laser that had Bobrovsky beaten with 2:19 remaining in the first.

The Rangers had yet another breakaway chance less than a minute into the second period when Will Cuylle skated in alone on Bobrovsky and was stoned by the netminder’s pads.

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A minute after Cuylle’s shot was stopped, Trocheck took a Jack Roslovic feed and was denied by Bobrovsky. A minute later, Lafreniere, who’s had such a terrific postseason with such growth shown, had an open shot on Bobrovsky that he rifled high off the glass.

It was the story of the night for the Rangers, who have now handed the precious home-ice advantage over to Florida as the teams ready for Friday night’s Game 2, which becomes critical for the Blueshirts.

With the Rangers on the mad scramble trying to find the equalizer, insult became injury.

With 7:15 remaining in the game, Rangers center Alexander Wennberg had two point-blank chances on goal and was stoned both times. Off the Wennberg chances in what was one of the few sustained scrambles in front of the Florida net, Wennberg deflected a Lafreniere shot off the post.

The Rangers got a power play shortly after that and failed on it, and that was followed by a crusher own-goal off Lafreniere’s stick as he tried to clear a Carter Verhaeghe shot with 3:48 remaining. Verhaege, who got the puck off a Shesterkin failed clear, was credited with the goal.

The Panthers, who would add an empty-netter, have proven themselves to be unafraid and unaffected by playing on the road — even if that road game is at storied Madison Square Garden. They are now 5-1 on the road this postseason, including winning their past four.

That makes Friday night particularly stressful for the Rangers.