Islanders deliver worst performance of season in ugly blowout loss to Kraken

Maybe this will jolt some urgency into the Islanders.

For a club that’s won just three games out of its last 13, there hasn’t been all too much of that lately, and the veneer of close losses finally broke down Thursday night in a listless and shambolic 5-2 defeat against the Kraken at UBS Arena.

The Islanders are 9-11-7 with just 25 points through 27 games, and whatever the excuses — injuries, so many one-goal games going the wrong way yet still within a couple of points of a playoff spot — they are in the Metropolitan Division’s basement.

While their neighbors across the East River have been in “save the season” mode despite a record that has mostly covered up the team’s underlying issues, the Islanders have yet to approach anything even in the ballpark of that rhetoric.

After Thursday, that might have to change.

“I understand our fans were pissed off,” coach Patrick Roy said after his team was booed off the ice following its worst performance of the season. “I’d be pissed off as well. Nobody was very happy and they deserve to not be happy.”