BOSTON – Sixty five minutes and no goals. Three All-Star shooters and no goals.

If the Rangers are going to do anything this year, they will need a better output than that.

Yet, the top two Ranger lines are still not clicking, not on the power play [0-6] and not at even strength.

Only Henrik Lundqvist’s brilliance gave the Blueshirts [2-4-1] a point in the 1-0 shootout loss to Boston on Phil Kessel’s wrister over the goalie’s shoulder.

“I’ll take a point,” said coach Tom Renney. “Defensively we seem to understand what we need to do to have success from that point. Obviously generating offense was the other half of the equation.”

The chemistry just isn’t there for the top two lines. Passes were not crisp causing too many turnover and broken up attempts at the net. Even though the Blueshirts outshot the Bruins 26-19, the attempts just didn’t work against Manny Fernandez, who stymied the Rangers all night.

“We had a tough time to get into the zone,” said captain Jaromir Jagr. “When we got it, it wasn’t on the right side or in clear possession of the puck. When we got it we were always running around and didn’t have a chance to set up.”

The bright side of this game was the defense and Lundqvist led the way, stopping Bruins, even on the tougher shots, like when Marc Savard shot one past him with around five minutes left in the first, but was able to reach across the crease and save a sure goal.

After that first period onslaught, when the Bruins had nine shots, the Ranger defense was able to only allow 10 the rest of the way.

“I thought our penalty kill was outstanding,” said Renney, as he saw his team stop the Bruins all eight times with the man advantage.

Yet, the game comes with a price and Marty Straka will be out for a while with a fractured finger after he blocked Zdeno Chara’s shot in the first.

It’s just another loss, which is weakening this Ranger team early on in the season.

But, maybe with the defense kicking in and home for six straight games, after a visit to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, the Rangers can build something.

“We are a team looking for traction and I think we regained our footing on defense,” Renney said. “You have to attack with speed and you have to attack with numbers. You have to go to the tough areas. For whatever reason, we are trying to pass the puck in the net and make it look spectacular so we can get everybody back on our side with one play.

“That’s not how it works.”

And no goals in 65 minutes proves that.

Notes: The game was switch to 4 p.m. so not to compete with the ALCS…The biggest cheers came when the Bruins saluted the Red Sox.