Anders Lee and Kevin Shattenkirk came together Saturday in a show of Islanders-Rangers unity a block over from the Garden. The two players with kindness in their hearts had combined to raise more than $600,000 at their own events to benefit kids with cancer, and now they were double-teaming to raise more.
“That’s the fun part of today is that there’s always going to be that bit of tension, Islanders-Rangers tension, but we obviously put that aside,” Shattenkirk said during the Jam Kancer in the Kan Foundation event at the Renaissance hotel in Manhattan. “We both respect each other and what we’re doing here and just have a good time with it.