The dust has settled on the Islanders’ 2018-19 season, and so it’s time to continue the Extension Talk series that began before the playoffs started. If you’d like to go back and read our first two entries: the first on Anders Lee and the second on Brock Nelson, check them out by clicking on the links.
This week, focus shifts to the goaltending position, where Lou Lamoriello and staff have a big decision to make on Robin Lehner. Lehner, who signed a one year, $1.5 million contract last July will be headed to unrestricted free agency this summer after an objectively outstanding season that saw him transform from enigma to unabashed folk hero on Long Island by the time it ended.