BOSTON — The Rangers have a few things to be thankful for this week. Their tight defensive game seems to be coming back, and they also caught a couple of opponents, in Carolina on Wednesday and Boston on Friday, who were playing at less than full strength.

And they took full advantage.

Against a watered-down Boston team missing its best player and leading scorer in David Pastrnak along with first-line center Pavel Zacha, both out day-to-day with undisclosed injuries, plus No. 1 defenseman Charlie McAvoy , out after taking a puck to the face earlier this month and undergoing surgery, the Rangers got two second-period power-play goals from Mika Zibanejad and a four-point game from Artemi Panarin in a 6-2 win over Boston at TD Garden.

It was the third straight win for the Rangers (13-

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