Saturday marked exactly 11 months since the Islanders acquired Andy Greene yet Saturday night’s game against the Rangers at Madison Square Garden was just his 12th in the regular season for the team.
But there’s no doubting the 38-year-old former Devils captain is an integral part of the Islanders’ quest to better September’s berth in the Eastern Conference finals, where they lost to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Lightning in six games.
So, it was in both sides’ best interests that Greene, an unrestricted free agent, re-signed a one-year deal with the Islanders, which carries a salary-cap hit of $700,000 but also has $2 million in potential performance bonuses.