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Rangers try for goalie normalcy, tab Henrik Lundqvist to return

The return of The King.

Henrik Lundqvist will be in net Thursday night, the Rangers star goalie told The Post, when the Rangers play in Dallas, snapping a streak of four straight games started by Antti Raanta.

Both the Rangers’ five-game winning streak and Raanta’s two-game shutout streak came to a halt Tuesday in a 2-1 loss to the Blackhawks, in which Raanta still dazzled but came out on the losing end.

Lundqvist, the franchise goalie, will start after being a healthy scratch for longer than he had ever been as a Ranger. A goalie controversy began to simmer, and still might, as the 27-year-old Raanta has been the superior goalie this season.