Thursday marked five weeks to the day since Filip Chytil sustained a suspected concussion in a first-period collision with Carolina’s Jesper Fast.

The 24-year-old center, who is believed to have sustained three concussions prior to this incident, has not yet been able to rejoin the Rangers for a practice, even in a noncontact jersey, as he continues to skate on his own.

Nevertheless, the Blueshirts expect him to return to the club, though understandably no timetable has ever been attached to Chytil’s recovery process.

Saturday’s match in Washington will mark his 15th straight game out of the lineup.

“I think he’s moving in the right direction,” head coach Peter Laviolette said following Thursday’s practice. “I think he’ll return.”

Chytil opened the season in the middle of the second line between Artemi Panarin and Alexis Lafreniere.

Vincent Trocheck stepped up seamlessly to fill that assignment, but Chytil’s absence has produced a trickle-down effect under which Nick Bonino has been taking third-line minutes, up from 10:41 to 13:17 per game before/after Chytil.

That was not the intended role for the 37-year-old free-agent signee.

The Rangers retroactively placed Chytil on LTI back to Nov. 3.

With Kaapo Kakko also on LTI in the wake of the left leg injury he sustained against Buffalo on Nov. 27, the club’s cap space is essentially frozen at just over $112,000.

If, however, Chytil is out for the season, the club would gain an additional $3.8 million or so in space.

The Laviolette Reunion Tour will continue Saturday when he visits the third of the five cities in which he has served as head coach after racking up victories in Philadelphia and Nashville.

Following the match with the Caps, the circuit will be complete upon visits to Carolina (March 12) and the Island (April 9).

“My career has bounced me around into different places and maybe some would look at it as maybe a negative,” Laviolette said. “Now, in hindsight I look at it as a positive where I got to go to these really cool places where I spent time doing something I love.”

Laviolette’s three-year tenure in Washington that ended after the aging Caps failed to make the playoffs last season marked the least successful stop on his 22-season career behind the bench.

The team did not win a playoff series over those three seasons, extending the franchise streak to five straight since winning the Cup in 2018.

“I worked with really good players in a really good city for a really good organization,” he said. “As far as my time there, like most places, I really enjoyed it.”

“The players were a good group of guys, the fan base was a loyal fan base, ownership and the team were really strong and it was a big city, Washington being in D.C. and that was kind of fun, too.”

Barclay Goodrow, who took a puck to the mouth and lost a tooth in Tuesday’s defeat in Ottawa, did not participate in practice Thursday.

Neither did Chris Kreider, dealing with an unidentified lower-body ailment. Both players are considered day-to-day.

The Rangers recalled Riley Nash from the AHL Hartford Wolf Pack as a precautionary measure in case Goodrow is unable to go.