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Anders Lee
New York Islanders Left Wing
A median shot distance of 13 feet with 64 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 — the most extreme interior profile in this edition — and 29 goals at 35.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | NYI | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 50.0 | 8:12 |
| 2013-14 | NYI | 22 | 9 | 5 | 14 | +3 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 13.2 | 15:43 |
| 2014-15 | NYI | 76 | 25 | 16 | 41 | +9 | 33 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 197 | 12.7 | 14:24 |
| 2015-16 | NYI | 80 | 15 | 21 | 36 | -2 | 51 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 183 | 8.2 | 14:35 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 81 | 34 | 18 | 52 | +9 | 56 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 191 | 17.8 | 15:35 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 82 | 40 | 22 | 62 | -25 | 44 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 208 | 19.2 | 17:16 |
| 2018-19 | NYI | 82 | 28 | 23 | 51 | +20 | 58 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 204 | 13.7 | 17:05 |
| 2019-20 | NYI | 68 | 20 | 23 | 43 | +8 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 195 | 10.3 | 18:18 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 27 | 12 | 7 | 19 | +11 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 80 | 15.0 | 17:32 |
| 2021-22 | NYI | 76 | 28 | 18 | 46 | -11 | 34 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 159 | 17.6 | 16:38 |
| 2022-23 | NYI | 82 | 28 | 22 | 50 | -3 | 50 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 214 | 13.1 | 17:13 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 81 | 20 | 17 | 37 | +2 | 68 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 185 | 10.8 | 15:34 |
| 2024-25 | NYI | 82 | 29 | 25 | 54 | +3 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 233 | 12.4 | 17:04 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 841 | 289 | 218 | 507 | +21 | 502 | 78 | 0 | 43 | 2119 | 13.6 | 16:21 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
82 games, 29 goals and 25 assists for 54 points at 17:04 a night, on 233 shots at 12.45 per cent. 35 penalty minutes. Plus-3.
A 51.4 per cent chance share, with on-ice goals of 36-47 against an expected 48.56-45.94 — twelve goals short at one end and one extra at the other. He scored 29 of his line’s 36 five-on-five goals, which is a captain carrying wingers.
The Finesse Game
64 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 13. That is the most extreme interior profile in this edition, ahead of every net-front specialist in the book, and it is being posted by a man who scored 29 goals — not a fourth-liner deflecting point shots.
There is no perimeter game at all: 9 per cent of his attempts came from beyond 40 feet. The hands in tight are quick and the tips are genuinely skilled, and everything he produces comes from a space six feet wide.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 234 pounds, and he occupies the blue paint for a living. He absorbs cross-checks, he does not move when a defenceman leans on him, and he is among the two or three hardest men in the league to shift from the front of a net.
35 penalty minutes at seventeen minutes a night is a modest number for that job, and he does not retaliate — the whole method depends on staying exactly where he is.
The Intangibles
A captain, a 40-goal season on his record, and a torn knee ligament at 29 that he came back from without losing the part of his game that mattered.
He is 35, he played all 82, and he scored 29 goals from thirteen feet. Nothing about that game is going to age badly, because none of it was ever built on speed.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,090 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.4%
- 66th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.9%
- 73rd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 47 against. Expected: 48.6 and 45.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 25 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1090 minutes at five-on-five
- Bo Horvat50%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- NYI took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.4% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,090 minutes at five-on-five — 74th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bo Horvat | 49.4% | 53.6% | 51.3% |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | 53.2% | 49.5% | 50.6% |
| Alexander Romanov | 50.9% | 51.6% | 49.1% |
49.4% together, 53.6% for him apart and 51.3% for Horvat apart. He was better away from Horvat, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Horvat.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
335 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 29 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 64% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.