The Rangers venture into the elements this Sunday when they put their perfect 4-0 outdoors record on the line at MetLife Stadium against the Islanders.

The Blueshirts will have to traverse one tunnel or bridge to get to the game while their opponents will have to traverse two, but the Islanders will be the home team because of the clause in the Rangers’ lease that they would forfeit their tax agreement with the city if they ever are designated the home team in a local venue outside Madison Square Garden.

Apparently having last change is not worth tens of millions of dollars.

This will be the Rangers’ third outdoor game under the Stadium Series imprimatur after having played a pair of Winter Classics.

It also will be their first in a football stadium after playing at three different ballparks.

Here is The Post’s ranking of the Blueshirts’ four previous outdoor games:

This is sort of the stepchild of the club’s outdoor adventures, a Wednesday night match in frigid 22-degree temperatures coming just three days after they defeated the Devils in The Bronx.

More than 50,000 folks poured into the big ballpark for the second time in three days, this time to see Daniel Carcillo score the 2-1 winner early in the third period after Brock Nelson and Benoit Pouliot had exchanged goals late in the second period. Henrik Lundqvist outdueled Evgeni Nabokov in net.

Much of the drama surrounding this one focused on Ryan Callahan’s contract status as an impending free agent with the trade deadline just over a month away. Spoiler alert: The captain was sent to Tampa Bay in a deal for Marty St. Louis.

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No one would have known it at the time, but this triumph, forged on J.T. Miller’s goal at 2:43 of OT in front of 41,821 in the bitter cold of Queens, represented the high point of a season that would soon be marked by The Letter and a deadline purge.

The victory, in which Lundqvist outdid Robin Lehner, pushed the club to 21-13-5. The Blueshirts then went 1-4 in their next five, 3-7 in their next 10 and 4-11 in the subsequent 15 to seal the fate of head coach Alain Vigneault’s team.

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Under gray skies before a packed Stadium enjoying 25-degree weather, the Rangers took apart Martin Brodeur on an afternoon in which the fabled netminder looked as if he wanted to be anywhere but The Bronx.

Brodeur was selected to start the highlight game out of respect after having recently fallen to second on the depth chart behind Cory Schneider. After New Jersey had grabbed a 3-2 lead in the first period, the Blueshirts scored four goals in the second for a 6-3 lead while sending Brodeur to the bench for the third period. Derek Stepan then scored on a penalty shot against Schneider in the third.

The grandaddy of them all for the Rangers will be tough to beat even if the team plays a hundred more at outdoor facilities.

This was the Winter Classic in which Lundqvist turned Daniel Briere aside on a penalty shot with 20 seconds remaining in the third period after a bogus call that followed some egregious ones in the Flyers’ favor down the stretch.

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Then-Blueshirts head coach John Tortorella went the hockey version of QAnon by implying in his post-game press conference that the league had been in cahoots with NBC so that the match might go into overtime. Tortorella was fined $30,000 by the league and then issued a statement the following day in which he denied that he said anything that he had said.

The game, delayed for two hours by sunlight, was played in balmy 41-degree weather.

Mike Rupp, who scored twice for the Rangers after the Flyers had taken a 2-0 lead, did the Jaromir Jagr salute after the first one. Jagr, playing for the Flyers, left for good in the second period because of a leg injury. The Blueshirts then won it on a Brad Richards goal early in the third period.

Festivities had begun a day earlier with a legends/old-timers game in which Blueshirt Alumni coach Mike Keenan shortened his bench for the entire third period, thereby enraging an entirely new group of Rangers who had never before had the privilege of playing for him.