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Jesper Fast celebrates his first-period goal with teammates during Rangers’ win over the Capitals.Patrick McDermott/NHLI via Getty Images

Jesper Fast celebrates his first-period goal with teammates during Rangers’ win over the Capitals.

WASHINGTON – No Henrik Lundqvist. No Rick Nash. No way the Rangers will let the NHL-leading Capitals forget who has eliminated them from the playoffs in three of the last four years, and who in high likelihood will be waiting for Washington if it intends to make a Stanley Cup run.

The Blueshirts blistered into the Verizon Center and rode major nights from Derek Stepan, Ryan McDonagh and Antti Raanta to a 3-2 win over the Caps, bouncing back from Thursday night’s defeat in Pittsburgh and closing their five-game series against Washington with a 2-2-1 record head-to-head.

Stepan scored the game-winner off a McDonagh assist 17 seconds into the third period to snap a 2-2 tie, after the Capitals (47-13-4, 98 points) had scored two unanswered in the second period to comeback from a two-goal Rangers first period at the Verizon Center.

Stepan’s goal was a reminder that he was also the hero for the Rangers (38-21-6, 82 points) in Game 7 of their comeback from a 3-1 second-round series deficit against Washington last spring. And his wrist shot that ticked off the skate of Caps D-man Brooks Orpik was also a reminder that Washington goalie Braden Holtby – the leading candidate to win this season’s Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top goalie – still hasn’t proven he can contain these Blueshirts once and for all.

Holtby committed a turnover prior to the Rangers’ first goal and again in the third period on a huge chance that he ultimately stopped. He was outplayed, though, by Raanta, who started because Lundqvist (neck spasms, day-to-day) was unavailable even to back up. Magnus Hellberg was recalled on emergency from the AHL to sit on the bench.

Raanta made his biggest save on a T.J. Oshie third-period wraparound that hit Stepan and McDonagh’s skates and nearly crossed the goal line, but a sprawled-out Raanta desperately pushed the puck against the post and out with his blocker.

Caps forward Jay Beagle’s goal at 10:58 of the second period to start Washington’s comeback happened on a scrum in which no goal was called initially. Then the referees overturned the call to a goal upon review, even though no camera angle on replays showed any conclusive evidence of the puck crossing the line.

Alain Vigneault challenged the review call for goalie interference to force the refs to look once more, but the call stood. And the Caps are the NHL’s best team for a reason: They took the momentum and ran with it, and T.J. Oshie scored off the rush on the power play at 19:20 off a bad change by McDonagh and Marc Staal.

Capitals center Jay Beagle scores on Rangers goalie Antti Raanta.Geoff Burke/USA Today Sports

Capitals center Jay Beagle scores on Rangers goalie Antti Raanta.

Staal (flu), the fourth Ranger to contract the flu in the past two weeks, sat out Thursday night’s loss to Pittsburgh. The team even put him on a commercial flight to D.C., separate from their charter, in order to quarantine him from the rest of the team and to get him extra sleep overnight.

Stepan was the Rangers’ primary catalyst in a commanding first period, in which the Blueshirts took a 2-0 lead by creating more traffic in 20 minutes than they had in Thursday night’s entire 4-1 loss in Pittsburgh.

Jesper Fast’s ninth goal of the season at 5:47 started with Stepan’s interception of a Braden Holtby turnover and resulted from Fast’s traffic in the slot. A shot from Ryan McDonagh, whose game has risen sharply, hit Caps D-man Brooks Oprik as he battled Fast, then Dan Girardi punched the puck back into the scrum Orpik accidentally moved the puck free for Fast to bury top shelf.

Stepan then helped the Blueshirts snuff out the Caps’ top-ranked power play without a single shot on goal, and also assisted with Derick Brassard on Keith Yandle’s power play drive at 16:37. Chris Kreider’s screens of Holtby made life difficult on the Caps goalie as Mats Zuccarello and Brassard both hit posts, and Kreider regained possession several times to keep the puck in before Yandle scored.

Stepan, who missed 10 games from Nov. 28 through Dec. 17 with broken ribs, is one of the Rangers’ most reliable players whenever he’s in the lineup. But lately he’s factored into game-changing plays on a nightly basis.

His touch-pass set up Kevin Klein’s game-winning goal in Dallas last Saturday, and he scored the game-winning shorthanded goal against Columbus on Monday.

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