{"id":549865,"date":"2026-04-10T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549865\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:00:36","slug":"the-story-behind-the-isles-jerseys-they-wore-at-lees-house-for-pond-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549865\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind the Isles Jerseys They Wore at Lee\u2019s House for Pond Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofevo.com\/event\/Youthhockey2526?ref=NYIWeb&amp;utm_source=nyi_web&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=nyi_belmontdepositcampaign&amp;utm_content=Youthhockey2526GroupsPage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Youth Hockey Day<\/a>, NewYorkIslanders.com caught up with the Islanders on which youth jersey they chose to wear, and why, for a fun and nostalgic afternoon skating on an outdoor pond.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of a long road trip in January, the New York Islanders had the opportunity to take a trip down memory lane.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Anders Lee invited\u00a0the\u00a0team to\u00a0his home in\u00a0Minnesota for\u00a0an afternoon of pond hockey, with the ask that they wear a special jersey from their junior or youth days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was Anders\u2019 idea to all bring a jersey from when we were young, it\u00a0brought back some fun memories,\u201d JG Pageau said. \u201cIt\u00a0was cool\u00a0for everyone to sport the\u00a0colors\u00a0of their\u00a0youth teams,\u00a0representing\u00a0where we grew up. It was a lot of fun.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders were excited and came prepared with their favorite childhood jersey.\u00a0Some had some assistance in physically getting the jersey\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Matthew Schaefer and Emil Heineman said their dads\u00a0brought them\u00a0their youth jerseys before the team headed out on the 16-day trek.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played for the Bulldogs for many years growing up, so my dad sent one to me since\u00a0I\u00a0forgot one at home,\u201d Schaefer said.\u00a0\u201cHe picked that one since he knows it means a lot to me.\u00a0Just playing hockey and growing up there,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0where I got started.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heineman\u00a0played in the\u00a0Leksands\u00a0system\u00a0in Sweden\u00a0for his whole\u00a0career before\u00a0coming stateside, so repping that logo with his NHL team was extra special.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0my\u00a0hometown team, I grew\u00a0up in that\u00a0in that arena pretty much,\u201d Heineman said. \u201cStarted\u00a0skating\u00a0when I was three years old and played on those teams. I know that place inside and out, obviously it means a lot to me.\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0my home,\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0my\u00a0childhood pretty much. That logo and that jersey means a lot to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To celebrate Youth Hockey Day, NewYorkIslanders.com caught up with the Islanders on which youth jersey they chose to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-549865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-islanders","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkislanders","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116382901422981918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}