He has been getting ready for NHL opening nights for 15 years, the last 14 of them as his team’s starting goaltender. So Henrik Lundqvist understands how to go about his training camp business and how to evaluate his preparation.

He said, “I feel really good,” when I asked him before the Rangers’ Thursday night opener against the Jets at the Garden, and then I asked him whether he would ever say he didn’t feel good if that indeed was his self-evaluation.

Lundqvist laughed.

“I would probably say that ‘I have work to do,’” the King said.

Of course there was the immediate need to know whether he feels he “has work to do.”

Again, he laughed.

“No, I feel really good,” said the goaltender. “I’m happy with where I am physically, technically and mentally. My timing is good. I’m moving well.

“I think the training I did over the summer and the work at training camp with Benny [goaltending coach Benoit Allaire] has put me in good position to start the season. I’m looking forward to getting going, and that’s for myself and the team.”

Only one other goaltender in NHL history has started more consecutive openers for the same team than Lundqvist’s 14. That would be Martin Brodeur, who started 18 straight for the Devils from 1994-95 through 2012-13. The last time Lundqvist took a back(up) seat on opening night came in his rookie 2005-06 season when Kevin Weekes got the assignment from Tom Renney in a shocking 6-3 victory in Philadelphia.

Lundqvist started 50 games that season, the fewest of his career other than the 2012-13 lockout season, when the schedule was cut to 48 games and Lundqvist started 43, and 2014-15, when the King missed seven weeks after getting hit by a shot in the throat and wound up with 46 starts.

There seems to be a fixation on the number of starts the 37-year-old will get this season as if there is a secret formula hidden in David Quinn’s back pocket that contains a predetermined quantity. For even as there will be a concerted effort not to overextend the Swede so that he does not have the same kind of second-half slumps he encountered the last two seasons, Lundqvist’s play will be the determinative factor in the equation.

The opening schedule is a vexing one: The Rangers have three games over the first 17 days of the season. After the opener, the Blueshirts are in Ottawa on Saturday and then don’t play again until the following Saturday, Oct. 12, at home against the Oilers. Then another four days off before a back-to-back at the Garden against the Devils and in DC the following night, Oct. 18.

So keeping the King fresh very early isn’t going to be all that tricky. The question, really, is whether backup Alex Georgiev will get one of the first three games.

“It’s a quirky schedule, for sure,” said Quinn, who in effect will be conducting a mini-camp next week. “I’ve got to make sure [the players] are not sick of me by the third game and I’m not sick of them. Usually you wait until February for that to happen.

“But we’re going to go game-by-game [regarding the goaltending]. I’ve got an idea in my head, but there’s a lot that goes into that.”

Again, fixating on Lundqvist’s final number of starts is silly. Last season he started 52 games, but that included six of the first seven, 13 of the first 16 and 25 of the first 32. Quinn kept going back to him the same way that Alain Vigneault kept going back to him at the start of the previous season, and that is because Lundqvist was on top of his game, carrying the team.

This year, the coach will have to restrain himself. The Rangers added some nice pieces in Jacob Trouba, Libor Hajek and Adam Fox on the blue line, but that’s not the same as importing Larry Robinson, Serge Savard and Guy Lapointe out of the 1970s and onto the Blueshirt roster. It is not the volume of games that wore down Lundqvist the last two seasons but rather the volume of glorious scoring chances he faced.

If the Rangers are different, surely so will be Lundqvist. Indeed, it is different already.

“Hank’s in great shape and has a little bit different mindset from last year,” Quinn said. “It was a hard year for him. He’s excited. He understands what we’re going to be doing moving forward. He’s excited for himself and for our team.”

He also feels “really good.”

You knew that already.