Over the past two years, the New York Islanders had a very successful top line. The combination of Anders Lee – John Tavares – Josh Bailey was extremely effective and even underrated most of the time.
Now, with John Tavares back home in Toronto, many are concerned with how Anders Lee, and more specifically, Josh Bailey will play without John Tavares.
The concern, on paper, is fair. Bailey’s career high in points before joining JT was 41 points coming in 2014-2015. In 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 he had career years with 56 and then 71 points.