LAS VEGAS — It had been 54 days since the Rangers last followed up a win with another win.

Fifty-four days of losses piling up in bunches, and feeling like every step forward led to two steps back.

The Blueshirts stopped the losing trend with a solid 2-1 victory against the Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena. The win showed that they are capable of competing against and triumphing over some of the best teams in the NHL.

It has been weeks and weeks on a downward trajectory, but Saturday night was perhaps the Rangers’ first time looking up in quite awhile.

Coach Peter Laviolette praised his team for their performance, highlighting their strong start and their ability to carry over the momentum from their previous game. The Rangers, now 20-20-2 for the season, demonstrated resilience by delivering a consistent and impressive effort.

“I thought the guys — everything, from the drop of the puck the first period was excellent. And then just followed it through for 60 minutes.”

The Rangers went toe-to-toe with the Golden Knights through the first two periods.

It resulted in a 1-1 tie at the start of the final frame, but the Rangers broke it at the 5:57 mark before pushing through all the way to the end.

The majority of the game was played with both teams at full strength, and the Rangers showcased one of their finest displays in even-strength play this season. A well-executed tip by Adam Edstrom on a shot from Jonny Brodzinski during a transition play secured the crucial lead for the Rangers.

“I know [Matt Rempe] got it on the wall, great outlet pass to Jonny [Brodzinski] there and we kind of talked about crashing the net so I was just trying to get in there,” Edstrom said of his third goal of the season and the first game-winner of his career. “Got a tip on the puck and it went in.”

Not only did they fend off another two Golden Knights power plays in the third, including 57 seconds of six-on-four play with Vegas’ net empty, but the Rangers survived the home team’s 11 shots on goal, made smart decisions in the defensive zone and maintained their offensive push to secure the victory.

It had fans clad in red, white and blue proudly shouting ‘Let’s Go Rangers!’ inside enemy territory in the final minutes.

Picking up their fourth win in their last six games, the Rangers appear to be on the up after a humbling start to the season.

Mika Zibanejad extended his point streak to six games with an assist on the Rangers’ first goal from Vincent Trocheck, who has started playing with the insatiable fire that made his last season so successful.

Both teams capitalized on their very first power plays, which didn’t come until the middle frame.

After the ref had to repeatedly tell Trocheck to get in the box for a holding call on Tomas Hertl that he vehemently refuted, the Golden Knights made quick work of their man-advantage with a goal from Vegas captain Mark Stone at the side of the Rangers net.

Keegan Kolesar got called for tripping K’Andre Miller just over two minutes later, however, to give the Rangers a chance to respond — and they did.

Absorbing a hard slap shot from Zibanejad, Trocheck backhanded the loose puck past Vegas goalie Ilya Samsanov to even the score at one-all.

“It’s obviously big, it’s a real good team over there,” Ryan Lindgren said. “Two in a row. We’re going to play a real good Colorado team [on Tuesday], so just got to keep building off of it. Just try and play better and better every game.”