Will Cuylles quick start is making the Rangers rethink his evolution

The two games captured it all for Will Cuylle.They served as a microcosm for the variety of roles he can fill — and thrive in — for the Rangers, and showcased the impact he can make, even if a path to the top six isn’t as clear as it was at the start of last year. There Cuylle was last Sunday, sending the Mammoth’s Dylan Guenther into the boards and stepping up to fight when Jack McBain challenged him later on.

And there the left winger was one week later, in the Blueshirts’ 6-2 win over the Canucks on Sunday at the Garden, recording the fifth multi-goal game of his career with his first tallies of the season.It gave him five points through seven games, an early pace that’d allow him to shatter his career best of 45 from 2023-24 and a blueprint to make that happen.  Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers.

His pair of goals — which gave the Rangers five victories in seven games entering Tuesday’s home match against the Lightning — also marked a first emergence of his scoring touch in his fifth season that could help lift his ceiling beyond the 20 goals from each of the last two years.They were just the second and third goals for his line at 5-on-5 play this season, a promising development for a third line tasked with relieving the pressure, both offensively and defensively, for the Rangers top six. “I mean, I thought [Sunday] was good for our line,” Cuylle said postgame Sunday.

“I thought for the most part we were down in their end.I think we’ve been kinda building our game all year.

Results haven’t always come, but analytically getting a lot of chances, a lot of Grade A chances.So it’s only a matter of time before they start going in.” Cuylle’s first goal unfolded in the early minutes of the second period, when Noah Laba sent a pass to him in the neutral zone.

Cuylle weaved around Linus Karlsson near the blue line an...