Henrik Lundqvist has scary collision in Rangers’ latest loss

It is almost impossible to comprehend.

Henrik Lundqvist, whose 430 victories are the most in Rangers history and the eighth-most all-time, has won four games since Jan. 20, going 3-13-2 with a no-decision in 19 starts and one win in relief.

“It hurts a lot,” Lundqvist told The Post following Tuesday’s 5-3 empty-net abetted defeat at the Garden to the Blue Jackets. “It’s tough.

“The nights where you might not have a good game but still win, you can feel pretty good about helping the team. But this … not winning … you just have to battle through it.”

Lundqvist’s first start since March 10 nearly came to a disastrous and premature end when he went flying through the air before landing on his backbone after taking a hip from Matt Calvert after the Jackets’ winger and John Gilmour collided at the high slot in a race for the puck.

The goaltender, dazed, stayed down before he was attended to by trainer Jim Ramsay. Lundqvist remained in the match after much flexing.

“I was just more surprised,” he said. “I thought both of them saw me, but I guess not. It hurt pretty much everywhere — my foot, my back, my neck. We’ll see how it feels [Wednesday]. It happens.”

The Rangers competed in this one against a Columbus team that was sparked by the brilliant Artemi Panarin’s hat trick (including the clinching empty-netter) in its ninth straight victory. The Jackets moved into a tie for second place in the Metropolitan Division with the Penguins while the Rangers moved two points closer to official extinction and nine games away from the end of the season.

“You want to get the win,” said Mika Zibanejad, who recorded his fifth goal in the last three games and eighth in his last nine to bring the Blueshirts within 3-2 at 7:16 of the third. “You try the whole game to get the two points and the win. It’s really frustrating to stand here and repeat myself whenever we lose.

“It’s just disappointing.”

Zibanejad’s goal came on a power-play whistler from above the left circle that beat a screened Sergei Bobrovsky. After the Jackets extended the lead to 4-2 when Panarin picked up a puck that seemed to be covered by Lundqvist — but was not blown dead — and went up top on the backhand at 11:19, Chris Kreider scored on a power-play redirect at 18:08.

“It might not always be evident, but I think we are making strides,” said Kreider, who set the screen on Zibanejad’s power-play goal and has seven points (two goals, five assists) in his last three contests.

“There’s no question the effort is there.”

The Blueshirts were disjointed too much of the time, however. They left wide-open spaces in prime scoring areas — they’ve been doing this since October, so let’s not blame the influx of kids onto the roster or the deadline teardown — for the Blue Jackets to exploit.

There are nine games remaining in this Longest Season for the Blueshirts, whose tragic number for elimination dipped to nine points pending the Devils’ game in San Jose.

“I think going into the third, we can be a little more patient and not give up four [or] five odd-man rushes in a one-goal game,” Lundqvist said. “We’re right there; we’re creating chances. I think that’s something we have to learn also, not to force chances when they’re not there.

“That’s how we got away from this game a little bit. We kept creating chances, but we gave them odd-man rushes that cost us.”