40 goals in a season is Elite..fyi. So is 35+ .. There are 31 teams in the NHL. in that last full season only 2 players scored 50. only 18 scored more than 35 goals. Of that 18 players only 10 of them were Wings (others were Centers)

.. Lee still scoring goals on a team that is extremely defensively driven and focussed is a top line winger. The fact that he was scored 125 goals in his last 300 games is Elite.

If Lee was on the Rangers most of you would be talking about him as the best power forward in hockey, but on the Islanders he is not a legit top line wing. .. SMH.

Yes it would be lovely to have one of those top 10 goals scorers in the league on Barzal's Wing, but I would rather have 4 lines with depth that has many guys who score 20+ Brock, Barzal, Lee, Eberle, Beauv, JGP, and even Casey are 20+ goal scorers.
- niteislander

In the last 5 seasons Lee ranks 28th among all forwards right under Eichel and Laine with the others on the list being a pretty impressive group of scoring forwards.
I would say he's fine as a 1st line winger. Out of the 62 in the NHL there are plenty that don't score as much as Lee does.
In the last 4 seasons Lee ranks at #14. I don't see any issue with him skating on my top line.

Again, it’s like starting a whole different argument. I never put down Lee. He has been doing his job with the Islanders . Can’t complain. My only point was they haven’t had an elite, all time , number 1 scoring winger in years. I know they don’t grow on trees. I know lots of teams don’t have them. I know it’s even more difficult to get one and have a winning team. But it’s not impossible. Lee is the best the Islanders can do at this point and that’s fine. I hope he continues to do what he has been doing for years to come. But the fact still remains they haven’t had an elite winger in forever. Maybe that’s not what Ben was getting at but that’s what I was talking about. And if he was on the Rangers I would hate him and say he sucks.