On a night when neither he nor his counterpart captain nor almost anyone else managed to provide a goal during actual play, Anders Lee at least provided perspective. “It’s a shootout loss. You lose the point, that’s what you’re frustrated about,” Lee said. “But you’ve got to look at how we played the game. Shootouts aren’t in the playoffs.”
It is his hope and belief that the Islanders will be in the playoffs. In any case, it is his job to make sense of every game, especially the gnawing ones like Monday night, when his team played well but let go of a 1-0 lead over Sidney Crosby and the Penguins then lost, 2-1, in a shootout.