EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — The Islanders are at the halfway point of a surprising 2018-19, having adapted to all sorts of offseason change to form a team that’s on a 100-point pace.



Instead of doling out awards, platitudes and criticisms, we’ve decided to let the Islanders tell you what they’ve seen from their team and themselves through the first half of the year — and give their votes for team MVP and Unsung Hero through 41 games. Statistics are courtesy of Hockey Reference and Natural Stat Trick.



Anders Lee



41 GP, 15-16-31, 17:27 time on ice/game, 52.7 scoring chance percentage, 56.7 high-danger chance percentage



What I’ve learned about the Isles: “We’ve proven a little bit, not only to ourselves but others, what we can be and who we are. We had that feeling coming into the year of not a lot of belief outside our room. I think we’ve shown that what we believed we could do and the work we’ve put...