“Seriously,” Islanders coach Doug Weight said after his team’s 1-0 overtime loss to the Rangers on Monday night, “it was awful.”

That game featured 18 combined penalties, nine of them for slashing and one for a faceoff violation. That went with zero goals through the first 60 minutes before Rangers rookie defenseman Neal Pionk scored 2:31 into the 3-on-3 overtime.

When young Islanders defenseman Scott Mayfield was called for his second slashing penalty of the game 10:29 into the second period, his stick hardly grazed the stick of an oncoming Rangers’ winger. Weight actually got upset at the call and had a heated conversation with the referee before backing off, realizing it’s still the preseason.

“I get it, you have to get it in the league and you have to set a precedent with the sticks and the things like that,” said Weight, whose team continued the preseason with a 3-2 win over the Flyers at Barclays Center on Wednesday night, while a split-squad lost, 3-2 in overtime to Philadelphia in Allentown, Pa. “It was tough to get guys involved. You’ve got guys trying to make hockey clubs, and they’re are trying to make a statement. They’re generally not going to be the guys that are killing all the penalties on the power plays. So it was tough.… No blame, I’m just saying it was tough.”

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