Regarding the Rangers, 10 days away from Kakko or Jacko.

1. Buyouts. The initial buyout period of June 15-30 opens Saturday. There is a second, shorter window later in the summer for clubs with salary arbitration filings.

“In all honesty, we haven’t ruled it out,” general manager Jeff Gorton told The Post on Tuesday when asked if the club intends to go that route. “It’s on the table. And regardless of what we do with this buyout window, we’d certainly look at the second one, too, depending on what comes up over the next few weeks. A lot can happen.”

Brendan Smith is the prime candidate for a buyout. The club’s 30-year-old hybrid 12th forward/seventh defenseman has two years remaining on his deal for an NHL cap hit of $4.35 million per season. A buyout would save the Rangers just over $3.379 million of space this season and $1.204 million next year, but would create approximately $1.146 million of dead space for the following two years.

Kevin Shattenkirk, with two years remaining at an annual $6.65 million cap hit, is also a buyout possibility, but though there would be a savings of nearly $5.167 million this year, that would be reduced to $567,000 next season. A Shattenkirk buyout would add just over $1.433 million of dead space for 2021-22 and 2022-23.

The Rangers have found essentially no interest in Smith or Shattenkirk on the trade market, even with a 50% contract retention. It is possible the Blueshirts could move Shattenkirk in return for taking on an odious contract, but it doesn’t seem likely they would go that route.

2. Blueshirts have close to $19 million of space if the cap increases to an expected $83 million. Re-signing restricted free agents Pavel Buchnevich, Brendan Lemieux, Tony DeAngelo and Neal Pionk likely would eat up to $10 million. That seemingly would leave the club with enough space for only one marquee addition, though Gorton cautioned against leaping to that conclusion.

“The number is about right, but I wouldn’t get fixated on that,” the GM said. “I think we have a number of guys who are pretty valuable around the league, so we’re going to have a lot of flexibility over the summer.

“There’s also the [10%] allowance where you can go over the cap. We’re not looking at it as if we can make only one big move or addition. We’ll see where it goes.”

3. Gorton said he intends to check in with Chris Kreider’s agent, Matt Keator, before the club’s management contingent heads to Vancouver early next week. Kreider, of course, has one year remaining on his contract before he is eligible to become a free agent in, appropriately enough, 2020.

The Blueshirts have four options as it comes to the 28-year-old Blueblood winger, as follows: 1) Sign him to an extension over the summer; 2) Trade him as part of a draft deal to snag another first-rounder and prospects; 3) Trade him as part of deal in exchange for a legit top-pair righty defenseman; 4) Allow him to play out the final season of his deal so he becomes rental fodder at the deadline.

Option 4 is out of the question. The Rangers have been there and done that the past two seasons. Decisions regarding Option 1 — and, as follows, 2 and 3 — will be largely dependent on what Kreider asks for in his next deal. His trade value, too, will be impacted by his contract requests. Clearly he would be worth more on the market if willing to sign an extension with an acquiring team than as a one-year rental. The Blueshirts have not yet been asked for permission by other teams to speak with Keator.

“Don’t read anything into the fact we haven’t talked yet,” Gorton said. “We were waiting for JD [new club president John Davidson] before we started meaningful discussions, but yes, realistically, we want to have an idea of what Chris is looking for before we get to the draft.”

4. If Kevin Hayes does not sign with the Flyers, who acquired his rights from Winnipeg for a fifth-rounder, before hitting the open market, the Rangers most certainly will check in on the potential prodigal.

But the contract/cap pace will only be a part of the decision-making process. If the Rangers sign Hayes to line up behind Mika Zibanejad in the middle, that means Filip Chytil would move semi-permanently to the wing and that we’d be back to what for Lias Andersson.

Of course, Hayes would no longer be in the conversation if the Rangers somehow wind up with Jack Hughes in the draft. And there is this, too: it is possible that Kaapo Kakko’s best position is center.

So while the Rangers like Hayes and recognize the importance of having pillars in the room to support the kindergarten-age kids, a number of obstacles stand in the way of a return.