Islanders stop Sidney Crosby and Penguins in shootout win
(New York Post Islanders)

It was so close to being the first-place Islanders. Though the calendar just turned to November and the season has just slipped into double-digits games played, the possibility of that statement being true would have been a shock to most preseason prognosticators. But when a regulation or overtime win could have allowed them to leapfrog...