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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 52.9 per cent chance share, with on-ice goals of 56-36 against an expected 50.60-45.14 — 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.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
74.3% of his attempts in the slot, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“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.”
“he does not retaliate”
“He scored 29 of his line's 36 five-on-five goals, which is a captain carrying wingers.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,090 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.9%
- 77th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.3%
- 76th 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: 56 for, 36 against. Expected: 50.6 and 45.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 35 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 637 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 48th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.05 a game
- Distance
- 2.55 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.0 mph
- 66th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
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 52.9% — 3.0 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 | 50.5% | 55.5% | 52.5% |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | 54.9% | 50.8% | 50.1% |
| Alexander Romanov | 52.1% | 53.2% | 47.8% |
50.5% together, 55.5% for him apart and 52.5% 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.