Robin Lehner shares how things went down with the Islanders and hockey fans will not be happy



The first 12 hours of the NHL free agent market has come and gone and nearly 100 players have already signed contracts with new teams or have re-signed with their recent team.

One of the players who’s on the move is goalie Robin Lehner, who joined the Chicago Blackhawks on a 1-year, $5 million deal on Monday afternoon.



#Lehner is Chicago bound. A post shared by TSN (@tsn_official) on Jul 1, 2019 at 3:14pm PDT

Lehner’s departure from the Islanders was a tad confusing for some fans considering the 27-year-old is coming off a career-season where he won 25 games and captured the William M. Jennings Trophy and the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, and it became even more of a head scratcher after they decided to go with Semyon Varlamov on a 4-year, $20 million deal.



#Isles Transaction: Semyon Varlamov has agreed to terms on a four year contract. https://t.co/KwKEY39QTY — New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) July 1, 2019

After the moves were all said and done and Lehner was a member of the Blackhawks and Varlamov was a member of the Islanders, the new Chicago netminder shared how things went down on his way out and it’s a little upsetting how it all unraveled for the Swedish goalie.



Here are Robin Lehner's full comments on how things went down with the Islanders. Not a good look. pic.twitter.com/N18Oot20x5 — Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) July 2, 2019

According to Chicago Sun-Times Blackhawks beat reporter Ben Pope, Lehner really wanted to stay put in New York and was prepared to try to make things work so he could re-sign, but when he went back to talk to management they broke the news to him that they decided to go ahead and sign Varlamov instead.



Bowman: "It's not about how many games each guy players. We need to be great in net every night, so however it works out, it'll work out." — Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) July 1, 2019

(H/T Twitter/BenPopeCST)