Twenty-one years later, Mark Messier can envision another magical Rangers spring.

“They got all the components you need to win a Stanley Cup,” Messier said while taking part in the BTIG Charity Day on the East Side on Tuesday. “Now they just got to go and do it. I would like their chances. Why wouldn’t you like their chances after the year they had?”

Messier said he feels the biggest advantage the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Rangers have, as they look to return to the Stanley Cup finals after losing to the Kings a year ago, is postseason experience. The Rangers, who open their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Capitals Thursday night at the Garden, have won at least one playoff series each of the last four years, though they have suffered devastating postseason setbacks each of those seasons.

“Those are the steps normally teams take when they’re on the journey the Rangers have been on the last few years,” Messier said. “They’re a team that is arguably the most experienced in the playoffs this year.”

The Rangers haven’t had a practice with Keith Yandle since before Game 2 of their first-round series against the Penguins.

The puck-moving defenseman missed Tuesday’s hour-plus, full-team practice again, and coach Alain Vigneault is not too concerned, at least not publicly.

“Sniffles today,” Vigneault said, laughing. “He’ll be out [to practice on Wednesday]. Just a case of the sniffles.”

Vigneault originally said Yandle was ill — which he obviously was, with a sore throat after Games 3 and 4 in Pittsburgh, telling reporters to stay away. Then after he missed Monday’s first practice after two days off, Vigneault said Yandle had “overall soreness that we’re trying to manage.”

Yandle played 84 games this regular season, getting traded from the Coyotes to the Rangers on March 1. He didn’t miss any of the five-game victory over the Penguins, although he did take consecutive hits in the head from Pittsburgh forward Blake Comeau early in the first period of Game 2, and left for the locker room after going to the bench a little wobbly.

Yandle missed close to 10 minutes of game time, but returned late in the first and finished the game having played 16:45 total.

There was officially “no update” from the team concerning winger Mats Zuccarello, who is out “indefinitely” after suffering an assumed concussion in Game 5 of the first round on Friday night.

A team spokesman, to whom Vigneault often refers questions about injury updates, said, “There won’t be anything right away, so we’ll let you know as soon as we have something.”

Vigneault has placed Martin St. Louis in Zuccarello’s spot, the right side of a line with Rick Nash and Derick Brassard.

“Tough shoes to fill,” Nash said. “It just shows the depth of this team. Guys can step in to any position and play any role.”

Defenseman Marc Staal had a maintenance day off of practice on Monday, but participated fully on Tuesday and declared himself “ready to go.”

“Excited to get started,” Staal said. “Good day of practice, definitely got back into it.”

Kevin Klein practiced again with the team, and Vigneault was optimistic about his return to the lineup for the first time since he broke his left arm on March 11.

“This was probably his second real team practice,” Vigneault said. “I asked him how he felt on the ice, and he said he felt real good. So another full-team practice tomorrow, and we’ll see how he reacts to that one.”

The Rangers official team Twitter account stopped using capital letters, because, you know, they’re facing the Caps.