Rangers looking to end scoreless drought versus rival Islanders that’s epitomized season

The season series against the Islanders so far has been a microcosm of much of the regular season for the Rangers.

That is to say a low-scoring, unwatchable disaster.

After getting shut out twice by their Long Island rivals in each of the first two head-to-head meetings earlier this season, Mike Sullivan’s last-place team will look to get onto the scoreboard and perhaps into the win column with a home-and-home set against the Islanders beginning Wednesday night at UBS Arena.

In fact, the sleepy 2-0 loss to Islanders backup goalie David Rittich in Elmont out of the Christmas break began the current tailspin, a 3-9-2 stretch that has sent the Rangers spiraling to the worst record in the Eastern Conference.

Ilya Sorokin had blanked them in a 5-0 rout at the Garden in November.

“I don’t know if there’s a common thread,” Sullivan said after practice Tuesday in Tarrytown. “We played them early in the season, and I feel like we went through a stretch of games where we were producing offense, we just weren’t scoring. I don’t think it was just against the Islanders.”