Reading Between the Pipes

All you need to know about what happened last night in the Garden in the Rangers' 4-3 shootout loss to the Islanders can be told by looking at four shots that hit the pipes instead of the net. If Brandon Dubinsky's golden opportunity in the first period hits twine instead of the crossbar, the Rangers are off to the races and blow the Isles right back out to the Island. If Brendan Shanahan's overtime blast catches the net instead of the crossbar, the Rangers win in overtime. On the flip side, with Ranger goalie Henrik Lundqvist unraveling in the second period after a good first period, if the Islanders don't hit two goal posts, the Rangers don't even walk away from this game with one point.