{"id":46673,"date":"2019-07-01T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=46673"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:32:54","slug":"anders-lee-signs-with-new-york-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/01\/anders-lee-signs-with-new-york-islanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Anders Lee Signs With New York Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The New York Islanders re-signed free agent forward <b><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>\u00a0<\/b>to a seven-year contract worth $49 million, or $7 million per season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anders Lee gets $7 million AAV on a 7-year deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#isles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussoHockey\/status\/1145792547803082755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Anders Lee Signs With the New York Islanders<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Over his seven-year NHL career, Anders Lee has played exclusively for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a>. He has put up 152 goals and 106 assists for 258 career points in 425 career games. He was originally drafted in the sixth round, 152<sup>nd<\/sup> overall of the 2009 NHL draft by the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored 28 goals and 33 assists for 51 points. He also added 58 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 49.2 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 2.1.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What This Means for the Future<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2018\/10\/04\/new-york-islanders-name-anders-lee-captain\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lee was named the captain of the New York Islanders<\/a> on October 4, 2018. He signed a four-year $15 million contract on June 30, 2015. By staying, he avoids the same fate as the team&#8217;s previous captain,\u00a0<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>. Tavares made instant news when he signed a seven-year $77 million contract with the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anders Lee has become quite the power-play-specialist with 24 power-play points over the last two seasons. The Islanders are receiving a player who is still young at 28-years-old (29 in July) and has some offensive skills. Lee was a highly sought after free agent but made it clear that he didn&#8217;t want to abandon the Islanders. He&#8217;s constantly stated that loyalty is the best asset in a teammate. With this new deal, both sides get their wish. The Islanders bring back their captain, only a year off of a great season, while Lee is able to stay in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Lee is also an accurate shooter coming in with a career 14.4 percent shooting accuracy. His size (6&#8217;3&#8243;, 231lbs) can be quite intimidating to opposing players covering him. He is a physical player as well, averaging about 126 hits over the last six seasons. 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Anders Lee gets $7 million AAV on a 7-year deal with the #isles &mdash; Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) July 1, 2019 Anders Lee Signs With the New York Islanders Over his seven-year NHL career, Anders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":46679,"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":[996,37,5738,491,2569,38,662,955],"class_list":["post-46673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islanders","category-news","tag-anders-lee","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-news","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46673","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\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}