{"id":22989,"date":"2018-07-03T18:13:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T22:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=22989"},"modified":"2018-07-03T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T22:13:27","slug":"robin-lehner-signs-new-york-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/07\/03\/robin-lehner-signs-new-york-islanders\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Islanders Sign Robin Lehner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Islanders<\/a> have agreed to a new contract with unrestricted free agent goaltender\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lehnero01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robin Lehner<\/a><\/b>.\u00a0The deal is for one year and worth $1.5M. Lehner became an unrestricted free agent when the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>\u00a0chose not to make him a qualifying offer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Isles<\/a> News: The team has agreed to terms on a one-year contract with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lehnero01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robin Lehner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/waWglct5IN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/waWglct5IN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ssd817J9FP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Ssd817J9FP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYIslanders\/status\/1014266430399934467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Robin Lehner Signs With the New York Islanders<\/h1>\n<p>In Lehner, the Islanders get a goalie with starting experience. Lehner is a large frame goalie and his prime is yet to come. In 53 games for the Sabres last season, he put up a 14-26-9 record with a .908 save percentage and a 3.01 goals-against average. While the Sabres struggled, it was not all on Lehner, who was regularly shelled and forced to deal with defensive breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>He can handle a heavy load playing in 59 games during the 2016-17 season. That year, he had a .920 save percentage and 2.68 goals-against average. He also faced 1,910 shots. Over his eight-year NHL career, Lehner has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> and Buffalo Sabres. He has put up a career save percentage of .915 and a goals-against average of 2.82 in 219 career games. He was originally drafted in the second round, 46th overall of the 2009 NHL draft by the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Lehner is coming off of a one-year, $4-million contract\u00a0that he signed with the Sabres last summer. His qualifying offer would have been $4-million<\/p>\n<p>Lehner will compete for the number one goaltending job with the Islanders next season. The Islanders were a prolific offense last season\u00a0but did not make the playoffs, in large part due to having the league&#8217;s worst goaltending. While the team has lost <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tavarjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Tavares<\/a><\/strong> and the offense is sure to take a hit, they hope that Lehner can help ease the issues in net.<\/p>\n<p>Main Image:\u00a0BUFFALO, NY &#8211; APRIL 05: Buffalo Sabres Goalie Robin Lehner (40) prepares to make save during the Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres NHL game on April 5, 2017, at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, NY (Photo by John Crouch \/ Icon Sportswire via Getty Images).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Islanders have agreed to a new contract with unrestricted free agent goaltender\u00a0Robin Lehner.\u00a0The deal is for one year and worth $1.5M. Lehner became an unrestricted free agent when the Buffalo Sabres\u00a0chose not to make him a qualifying offer. #Isles News: The team has agreed to terms on a one-year contract with Robin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":14011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34],"tags":[37,491,38,1269],"class_list":["post-22989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islanders","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-robin-lehner"],"modified_by":"Ariel Melendez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}