The Rangers open the 2024-2025 season in Pittsburgh with three rookies on their roster.

Matt Rempe, Adam Edstrom and Victor Mancini officially made the Blueshirts out of training camp for the first time in all three of their respective careers.

The three youngsters were officially recalled from the Wolf Pack on Tuesday.

The Rangers then sent Anton Blidh, Ben Harpur, Jake Leschyshyn, Matthew Robertson and Adam Sykora – five players who were recalled strictly as a paper transaction – back to Hartford.

Will Cuylle was also assigned to Hartford as a paper move, but the second-year Ranger was also recalled with the aforementioned rookies.

Rempe and Edstrom were the frontrunners to take the final spots in the lineup, but Mancini has been a pleasant surprise this training camp.

Not only did Mancini score two goals this preseason, but the 6-foot-4 defender impressed head coach Peter Laviolette during practices with the varsity group.

Mancini also earned a pair of reps alongside No. 1 defenseman Adam Fox during Ryan Lindgren’s injury absence.

Lindgren going on injured reserve and Jimmy Vesey going on long-term injured reserve opened the door for Edstrom and Mancini to make the roster.

The rookies will now be charged with helping open a now-or-never season for this Rangers core.

“I think there’s an expectation,” Laviolette said Monday of the Rangers season. “Last year, and probably before I got here, this team was successful. And then you ultimately have to build that up during the regular season. You have to do the work. You have to put yourself in a position to have a good regular season. To take that into the play-offs. I don’t think anything will change that. I don’t know if it’s necessarily busy. I think that’s what we expect.

“That’s what we want to achieve here in New York. But that hasn’t changed, I guess. And it is still like that: we have to keep moving forward, we have to take more steps. There are some good things we have done, but we still need to take more steps. I think that’s what everyone’s mind is on.”

Brett Berard was assigned to Hartford on Monday, but the 22-year-old will certainly remain on the minds of Rangers management this season.

“He impressed everyone,” Laviolette said of Berard. “It’s the way he works and the way he competes. You see him here mixed in with a full NHL team, and he looks really good. It’s his speed, it’s his tenacity. His ability to make plays. A first year player going there and leading the team in goals, I think he had 25 – that’s not easy to do in your first year.

“He had a good year and then had a good summer and came to camp in good shape. He really made a good impression. I think every time you’re here you benefit from training where you play against higher competition at a different pace and speed.

“He was good, Mancini the same. I think he just looked good when all the guys were on the ice. They still look like they belong.”