KINGSTON, R.I. — Mike Sullivan didn’t want to give the answer away too soon, but the fact that rookie Noah Laba went through practice drills at Boss Ice Arena on Monday as the third-line center between Conor Sheary and Taylor Raddysh made the news pretty obvious.

Laba, 22, made the Rangers’ roster for opening night Tuesday at the Garden against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Little more than three hours after practice, the Rangers made it official that both Laba and Sheary, who’d been in camp on a professional tryout, made the team when they announced that forward Brett Berard had been assigned to AHL Hartford. That reduced the roster to the 23-player limit before the NHL’s 5 p.m. deadline.

“We think he’s had a great camp,’’ Sullivan said of Laba, a fourth-round draft pick in 2022 w

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