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Emerson Etem painfully aware of why Rangers dumped him

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Emerson Etem was acquired and traded by the Rangers in the span of seven months.

It wasn’t necessarily a leading question, but Emerson Etem interrupted before a reporter could finish asking whether the newest Canuck had any bitterness towards the Rangers, who traded him Jan. 8 after a failed run on Broadway and whom he will face Tuesday night at the Garden.

“No,” Etem told The Post emphatically on Sunday afternoon at Barclays Center. “Not at all.”

Etem — in his fourth game for his new team, under old junior coach Willie Desjardins — went out and played an entirely unspectacular game against the Islanders, something the Rangers became accustomed to seeing in his 19-game audition.