{"id":36517,"date":"2018-10-04T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T17:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=36517"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:38:17","slug":"new-york-islanders-name-anders-lee-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/10\/04\/new-york-islanders-name-anders-lee-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Islanders Name Anders Lee Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a> have named<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/leean01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anders Lee<\/a><\/strong> the team\u2019s 15<sup>th<\/sup> captain in the franchise\u2019s 46-year history on Thursday. Lee replaced <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> as captain, who moved onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> in the off-season. Tavares had served as captain since 2013.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Isles<\/a> name Anders Lee captain.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arthur Staple (@StapeAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StapeAthletic\/status\/1047875683559636992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Anders Lee Named Islanders Captain<\/h2>\n<p>Lee has played only for the New York Islanders in his six-season NHL career. He totaled 40 goals and 22 assists for 62 points in the 2017-18 season. The former University of Notre Dame product also added 44 penalty minutes. His Corsi for was 48.0% and Corsi rel was 0.6.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old has scored 124 goals and dished out 83 assists for 207 points in 343 career games. He was originally drafted in the sixth round, 152<sup>nd<\/sup> overall by the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>Lee broke the 40-goal mark for the first time last season after he netted a career-high 34 goals in 2016-17. The 2016-17 season was a bounce-back season for Lee after only scoring 15 goals the previous campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bailejo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Bailey<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cluttca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Clutterbuck<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/laddan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Ladd<\/a><\/strong> are also part of the Islanders\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/new-york-islanders-name-anders-lee-team-captain\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leadership group this season as alternate captains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What it Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Many expected the Islanders would be captainless for the first time since the 1996-97 season. However, has shown that he can wear the \u201cC\u201d from his on-ice and off-ice activities. The American forward runs the Anders Lee Kancer Jam tournament every year.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders and Lee are working on a long-term contract extension to keep the Edina, Minnesota native with the club. Keeping Lee on the team will be important for the Isles but naming him captain is a big first step that they are committed to him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/11\/Tavares-Barzal.jpg\" alt=\"\">NEW YORK, NY &#8211; OCTOBER 30: Mathew Barzal #13 of the New York Islanders (l) celebrates his goal at 17:44 of the second period against the Vegas Golden Knights and is joined by John Tavares #91 (c) and Anders Lee #27 (r) at the Barclays Center on October 30, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Bruce Bennett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Islanders have named Anders Lee the team\u2019s 15th captain in the franchise\u2019s 46-year history on Thursday. Lee replaced John Tavares as captain, who moved onto the Toronto Maple Leafs in the off-season. Tavares had served as captain since 2013. #Isles name Anders Lee captain. &mdash; Arthur Staple (@StapeAthletic) October 4, 2018 Anders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":18839,"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":[34,17],"tags":[996,500,993,5738,499,2638,491,2569,955],"class_list":["post-36517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-islanders","tag-anders-lee","tag-andrew-ladd","tag-cal-clutterbuck","tag-hockey-news","tag-john-tavares","tag-josh-bailey","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-news","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36517","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}