Anders Lee #27 of the New York Islanders warms up before a game against the Boston Bruins at NYCB Live on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 in Uniondale, New York. Credit: Jim McIsaac
The Islanders play their fourth game without Anders Lee on Thursday night. But it is their first since the finality of the captain’s season-ending torn anterior cruciate ligament was revealed.
Wednesday’s news as delivered by Islanders president and general manager Lou Lamoriello was unwanted but not unexpected given how Lee couldn’t even crawl off the ice after the Devils’ Pavel Zacha fell over his extended right leg on March 11.