All summer long I was told that Josh Bailey and Anders Lee would crumble, like the rest of the New York Islanders, with the departure of John Tavares. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not nieve the team would be better off with a point per game player at center on the top line instead of Brock Nelson, there’s no denying that.
The one area where everyone was mistaken was assuming Josh Bailey and Anders Lee would turn into a puddle without Johnny. That rhetoric has already been shut down 10 games into the season.
Names like Matt Moulson and PA Parenteau come to mind when thinking of players who benefited from playing alongside J.