Matt Rempe a ‘different fighter’ after Georges Laraque fight camp

To Georges Laraque, fighting in the NHL is a brotherhood.

So when Matt Rempe went on a bout bender during his first days in the league, putting what some believe to be a dying role in hockey in the New York City limelight, Laraque, the former longtime NHL enforcer — like everyone else — watched intently.

He saw the Rangers rookie hold his own against Islanders heavyweight Matt Martin in front of 79,690 fans at MetLife Stadium.

Then looked on as Rempe got clocked a few times by Flyers face-puncher Nicolas Deslauriers and later taken down by Blue Jackets tough guy Mathieu Olivier.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God, he’s getting hit way too much because he has no technique,’ ” Laraque recalled to The Post in a recent phone call. “And then after a few fights, his face, he had black eyes and everything. After [the] Olivier [fight], when it kind of went a bit bad, I was like, ‘OK, I have to reach out to him.’ Because he was so good for the league.”

The two exchanged a series of messages and Laraque offered up what he learned across 695 career games and 159 fights (according to hockeyfights.com) in the best way that text communication would allow.

After that, when Rempe squared off against the 6-foot-2, 226-pound Ryan Reaves in Toronto, the 22-year-old had much better form.

He then showed composure in his anticipated tussle with the Devils’ hired henchman Kurtis MacDermid.

“So what I told him, I said, ‘Listen, when the season is over, if you want, we can meet up and we’ll do this on the ice,’” said Laraque, who is now a public speaker and member of the NHL’s and NHL Players Association’s Inclusion Coalition. “It’s way better on the ice than by text. So a couple weeks ago, he texted me and he said, ‘Can I take you up on your offer?’ ”

The enforcer of yesteryear and the enforcer of the future met at the Silent Ice Center in Edmonton, Alberta, last week for three days.

They worked for 90 minutes each day on a myriad of fighting techniques aimed at ensuring the longevity of Rempe’s career, which was Laraque’s biggest concern when he first started watching him.