Jack Capuano doesn’t want to name names, but the Islanders coach doesn’t have to: Anders Lee is one of the young players who is “battling” and “struggling,” as Capuano put it before Wednesday night’s game against the Senators at Barclays Center.

Lee, 25, is still the same 6-foot-3, 225-pound guy he was last season when he scored 25 goals. He’s still the same guy who put his name on the bottom of a four-year, $15 million deal that began this season with the annual salary-cap hit of $3.75 million.

Yet he’s also the same guy who was a healthy scratch for two of the team’s seven playoff games last season in the first-round loss to the Capitals, and the same guy who has 12 goals and 32 points in 71 games.

“The second you start worrying about stuff you can’t control — outside the ice, outside the game — that’s when it starts hurting your game,” Lee said Wednesday morning. “I think right now, for all of us, the best thing to do is go in with fresh minds and mental clarity. Because all the clutter in our heads is slowing us down. We’re not playing the fast game that we want to. We’re just thinking a little bit too much, myself included.

“We all want this, and I think sometimes when you want it too much or at the wrong time and [in] the wrong ways is when you get in trouble.”

The Islanders were in trouble, alright, having gone 0-3-1 in their previous four games to start putting their postseason berth in question. As much as they don’t like hearing that, as much as they might react with calm smiles, it is inevitably a notion stewing in the back of their minds.

“We’re not going to have any panic with our club,” Capuano said. “Especially when you have some guys struggling, that’s the last thing you want to do. As a leader, as a coaching staff, if you show panic, the guys are going to have panic. So you want to stay positive and make sure that they understand that our staff has the faith in the guys that we’re dressing every night to try to win a hockey game.”

So, unlike last postseason, Lee dressed again after he played a rather tepid and listless game in Monday’s 4-1 loss to the Flyers in Brooklyn. Lee spent most of that game on left flank of captain John Tavares, who has gone through his own well-documented struggles, partly because Capuano can’t find him cohesive linemates.

Lee will start in another spot against Ottawa, another sign making it clear he needs to do better. That includes using his big frame to get the front of the net, and to move his feet and utilize his speed. Then he hopes to start regaining some confidence.

“We have to get pucks to the net and get back to the basics,” Lee said. “The pretty ones will follow, the offense will start clicking again, and we’ll be fine. I think it’s just a rough patch right now and we’re all a little bit frustrated.”

The Islanders’ fight for a playoff spot makes this an inopportune time to be slumping. Lee knows that; he’s been through that before. But after the Senators, 10 games remain in the regular season.

“To go through a [tough] five-, six-game stretch right now when other teams are coming together a little bit and right on our tails, for sure it adds stress,” Lee said. “But we play in a stressful environment all the time, and we’ve handled this before throughout our entire careers, everyone. So it’s not something new, it’s just something that we have to deal with.”