Former Islander’s first-round pick Joshua Ho-Sang was reassigned to Linkoping Hockey Club, another team in Sweden, on Sunday afternoon. The move comes after Ho-Sang’s loan with Orebro was terminated after playing just five games with the club. In his five games with Orebro, Ho-Sang picked up just one assist. The 2014 ...
Read More »Josh Ho-Sang and Orebro "Go Separate Ways"
After just five games with Orebro of the Swedish Hockey League, the top tier professional hockey league in Sweden, playing alongside New York Islanders’ prospect Robin Salo, Josh Ho-Sang’s loan is over. According to the team, the 2014 first-round pick had issues with his fitness. Even with his 11-month layoff ...
Read More »Ranking the Isles Revamped Prospect Pool
We are now just two months away from the start of the 2018-19 season. You could feel the tense but exciting feeling amongst the New York Islander faithful, and for good reason. While a new regime now running the organization headlined by Lou Lamoriello and Barry Trotz are poised to ...
Read More »Obviously Everyone Likes OEL (and he's the perfect fit)
It is being speculated that Oliver Eckman-Larsson will be on the trade block this winter. Surprisingly there has been debate as to whether the Islanders need to look at acquiring the defenseman from Arizona. As Larry Brooks brought up in his column, this is the time for the Isles to ...
Read More »Order 66
I’m happy Josh Ho-Sang is wearing number 66 because that is the number he wants to wear and honestly, I don’t care. What is mindboggling is the backlash against him for wearing such a highly-distinguished number (yes, that’s sarcasm). The whole idea that we need to retire a number throughout ...
Read More »Ten Ways of Looking at Joshua Ho-Sang
1. First glance Fans who made the trek to Brooklyn for the New York Islanders 2015 Blue and White Scrimmage likely came for one of the two following reasons: the tickets were a mere ten bucks, and an enigma, 19-year-old winger Joshua Ho-Sang, was skating the Barclays Center ice for ...
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