Start of finish for Blueshirts?

SEASONS have feels to them. For the Yankees, it felt a lot like 1996 until Friday and Saturday happened. Then it felt a little bit more like 1995. But remembrances of both induced warm feelings of better dynastic days to follow.

Could that be the case for the Rangers, whose first 10 games recall nothing so much as 1975-76, the season the team broke bad after years of coming close — Eddie Giacomin was waived, Jean Ratelle and Brad Park were traded, Emile Francis was ultimately fired, and an era came to a miserable conclusion. And the thing is, it went just ... like ... that. One day, they were the proud Rangers who’d been one of the league’s best teams for six years running. The next, they had Doug Jarrett, Bill Collins, Nick Beverley, John Bednarski and Dunc Wilson — and Phil Esposito and Carol Vadnais — wearing Blueshirts and it was done. Just. Like. That. Is it too early to reach conclusive opinions about these Blueshirts, who fell to 2-6-2 in conjunction with Monday’s 4-1 defeat to the Sharks in which they looked like a gardenvariety bad team? Maybe, but that’s giving this group much more of a benefit of the doubt than it has earned.

Is it too early to suggest that general manager Jeff Gorton is under the same pressure to move heaven and earth just as the Cat was back in the day? Even if it is tougher these days to do something dramatic in October or early November, no it is not too early to suggest the GM is on the clock here and so is his coach, Alain Vigneault.

The Rangers are less than the sum of their parts. They look like a bad team and have looked like a bad team through sizable portions of nine of the 10 games they have played, the 2-0 victory over Montreal on Oct. 8 serving as the lone exception.

What’s more, they have often looked like a bad team getting bad goaltending. Henrik Lundqvist either surrendered two or three bad ones, depending on whether you think the goaltender should be held responsible for Logan Couture’s 50-footer that may have ticked off Chris Kreider at 1:56 of the first period.

There could be no arguments on the second goal that came from a weak-angle rightcorner shot from Tim Heed at 12:45 of the first period or on Melker Karlsson’s 4-0 goal at 2:51 of the third after Lundqvist had been stripped by Couture trying to play a wraparound behind the net.

The Rangers may be shy some young talent after having traded away four consecutive first-rounders from 2013 through 2016 in attempts to win it all, but when you get nights on which your goaltender’s save percentage is under .900 — as in this one in which Lundqvist allowed four goals on 24 shots, and as in six of his nine starts, includ- ing three under .870 — even the most splendiferous young talent extant wouldn’t necessarily make a difference.

In Edmonton: Connor McDavid. In Edmonton: Cam Talbot with a .903 save percentage. In Edmonton: the Oilers at 2-5.

Year after year after year, Lundqvist patched holes. This year, he has too often been one of the holes himself. And whereas the King made a career of carrying his teammates, his teammates seem unable to do the same for him.

There doesn’t seem to be anything to grab onto, anyone to grab hold of. The Rangers seem to be waiting for bad things to happen. They haven’t had to wait long, either. The Blueshirts have fallen behind five times within the opening 2:40. They — and Lundqvist — have allowed goals three times on the first shot against and three other times on the third shot against. They have trailed by two goals four times within the opening 12:45.

That’s kind of what happens to bad teams, even if players on teams that break bad don’t see themselves that way when they look in the mirror and, really, why would they?

“I don’t think we’re missing personnel or a mindset, or anything like that,” Marc Staal told The Post. “We’re definitely working through some issues right now, but I don’t believe we’re a bad team. It’s too early for anything like that.”

It was too early for anything like that back in 1975, also. But then Giacomin was gone, Ratelle and Park were gone, Emile was gone, and the Rangers were terrible.