What is the story about?
Today could be the day the Islanders and captain Anders Lee say goodbye after 14 seasons and 923 games together.
Lee will turn 36 in a couple of days, so while both parties would like to continue their relationship under the right conditions, there is apparent disagreement over term or rate and what not.
Such is reality in the NHL when you gotta make room for 15-points-at-age-35 Ondrej Palat.
As NHL free agency officially kicked off, word was that Lee was headed to market. Maybe, if whatever his definitely-not-tampering
agent tells him is out there fails to emerge, he’ll come back to the Isles after all.
Or maybe he’ll sign with the Wild.
- Isles development camp, day 2: There are blues and there are whites. [Isles]
- Three Lawn Guy-landers are enjoying their time at camp. [Isles | Newsday]
- Single Malte will not rush his timeline. [Newsday]
- Kashawn Aitcheson is ready for the next step after a dominant OHL season. [Isles]
Around the NHL
- Some serious drama around Zach Werensky as his camp is apparently pissed off and has vetoed a trade to Dallas. [Sportsnet]
- Friedman with the midnight blog about that and more. [Sportsnet]
- Ranking the tiers of available free agents. [ESPN]
- Follow some free agency live blogging here. Who will be the first
tampersigning?[NHL] - The Panthers, unable to agree to aging Sergei Bobrovsky’s astronomical demands, instead traded for aging Jacob Markstrom. [ESPN]
- Wow, the Rangers gave ex-Knight Pavel Dorofeyev…7 years and $77 million? [NHL]
- Vegas acquired old friend Parker Wotherspoon from Pittsburgh for some cap space. [ESPN]
