Different teams, different years and much different stakes, that’s all true, but do you know what Monday’s Game 4 against the Devils felt like?

It felt like either Game 5 or Game 7 of the 2015 conference finals against the Lightning in which the Rangers came up flat and were shut out 2-0 in each contest following inspirational victories on the road.

And do you know what else?

New Jersey’s 6-foot-5 netminder Akira Schmid looks suspiciously like a latter-day Ben Bishop, the 6-foot-7 then-Tampa Bay goaltender who always gave the Rangers fits while compiling a career record of 11-3 with a 1.93 GAA and .930 save percentage against the Blueshirts during the regular season.

Schmid, called upon to replace Vitek Vanecek after a pair of subpar performances, has allowed two goals on 59 shots in 131:36. That computes to an 0.91 GAA and .966 save percentage. The 22-year-old rookie has been very good, but the Rangers have barely tested him.

They haven’t forced him to go side to side other than a few select instances. We don’t know how well he moves laterally. He takes up a lot of space and he has been outstanding in controlling first-shot saves, but he has not been forced to deal with sustained pressure or constant traffic in front.

It is on the Rangers to make Schmid work harder for his rewards. Maybe, just maybe, they might want to jostle the goaltender as often as the Devils have been bumping Igor Shesterkin. That is a recurring theme that spans a generation. The Blueshirts nearly always have taken more than they have given out in that regard.

On that point, though, the Rangers would have been more damned if they had responded when Nico Hischier slid into Shesterkin on a net drive 8:44 into the third period than they are damned in the aftermath of not racing to the goaltender’s rescue.

Hischier’s net drive was not malicious. That aside, what should the Rangers have done, flexed some muscle and jumped on Hischier so the Devils could go on the power play 22 seconds after having taken the lead?

It is not a particularly easy task, but head coach Gerard Gallant needs to find a way to get Kaapo Kakko more ice time. No. 24 only got 12:41 in Game 4 and 11:46 in Game 3 while averaging 13:06 during the series, more than 2:00 under his season complement.

Kakko has been the best of the Kids, who were the best of the team in both games at the Garden even while failing to get on the scoreboard.

But No. 24 is not on the power play and he does not kill penalties, so, until further notice, he is restricted to even-strength minutes.

Are you going to take Patrick Kane off PP1 to make room for Kakko? Not likely. On the second unit in place of whom? Lafreniere? You’re not taking Vladimir Tarasenko off the power play.

So Gallant is going to have to be a little inventive here, maybe ensure Kakko gets on the shift following every power play.

You knew how the coach felt about the unit with Filip Chytil in the middle, Lafreniere on the left and Kakko on the right when he sent that line out to start Monday’s third period after he had tabbed Mika Zibanejad’s unit to start nine periods (including overtime) before going to Vincent Trocheck’s line to start the second period of Game 4.

Fact is, wingers Kane and Chris Kreider had started every period that began at full strength (the Rangers were shorthanded twice) until the third period.

“The only thing I liked last night, I thought the Kid Line played really hard,” Gallant said on Tuesday’s conference call. “And our goaltending was solid.

“Need a lot more from everybody else.”

In last year’s playoffs, Panarin was making a bushelful of errors by commission, forcing rink-wide passes through traffic and dipsy-doodling at the line without much success.

This year it is different. Panarin seems to have shrunk over the two games in New York, barely owning the puck, rarely dynamic.

There was one cross-ice pass that sent Trocheck in on the right side five minutes into the third period with the score tied 1-1 before No. 16 missed the net, but that was pretty much it from Panarin, who has two assists for the series.

The Rangers will not survive the long run with a performance like this from one of their two most productive forwards.

Zibanejad has been far more noticeable in different areas, but the team needs its leading goal-scorer to sprinkle one in now and again.

There is a burden of proof on these two athletes.