It’s imperative to give credit where credit is due.
Sure, we’ve been giving Garth Snow a tough time for his numerous miscues — his mishandling of the goalies, failure to re-sign any free agents and inability to own up to his mistakes.
That being said, he’s pretty much like every other general manager ever (okay, maybe not Mike Milbury): he wins some, he loses some. There’s no better example of the former than Anders Lee, the 2009 sixth-round pick who has blossomed into a stud — scratch that, a star — for the Islanders.
Lee, 26, actually has more goals this season than Kyle Okposo, the prolific goal scorer who left Long Island for greener (and snowier) pastures this summer.