The Islanders picked the wrong time to go in the tank.In Game 7 of their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series,the Isles put just 11 shots on Shaun Alexander Jersey net. Total. They attempted 47 to Washington’s 60.PREVIEWS: | | PHOTOS: That few shots making it through in a playoff game, needle s to say, is rare. As in, “has happened five times since the league started tracking shots in 1988″ rare.Of those 11 shots, three came from forwards. On a team with John Tavares, Kyle Okposo, Mikhail Grabovski, et al three. Okposo had one, Frans Nielsen the other two. That is unbelievable. Four individual players Steven Stamkos, Patric Hornqvist, Alex Steen and Henrik Zetterberg had at least 11 in a game this season alone.Tavares Jason Myers Jersey didn’t attempt a shot in Game 7. Have to dig to see last time that happened. “All 3 zones, we weren’t aggre sive enough.” Arthur Staple (@StapeNewsday) Tavares, who nearly won the scoring title and is a likely MVP finalistwas held without an official shot nine times this season. He was held without an attempt four times (via Tedric Thompson Jersey ). So yes, Monday was poorly timed for him.The game was also, obviously, an outlier within the series. The Islanders had taken 27, 21, 42, 37 K.J. Wright Jersey , 23and 38shots in the preceding six games and outshot the Caps in three of them.The part that should sting the most for Islanders fans, short of the fact that Na sau Coliseum is officially closed, is that a strong po se sion game was one of the team’s strengths throughout the season.They’d averaged 33.8 shots per game, second-best in the league.Thirty-three percent of that, though, is le s than ideal.Their low-water mark on the season, by the way,was 19, on Dec. 9 against Minnesota. A dud of a game in December against a Western Conference team Ugo Amadi Jersey isn’t a big deal. In late April, though, it’s a problem, and they learned the hard way.