Islanders-Bruins Rookie Game 1

The Islanders’ rookies went down to the Bruins rookies 8-5 only after a late comeback fell short.

Positives were the play of Niederreiter, Kabanov and de Haan.  Persson and Cizikas made an impression as well.  Negatives were the play of Koskinen (.500 sv%) and that Rhakshani went down with a concussion early and will be re-evaluated tomorrow.

Some improvements need to be made before tomorrow’s game on defense and cutting down the sloppy mistakes, especially on PP/PK.

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Soundtigers Head Coach Brent Thompson and asst. coach Eric Boguniecki

Wearing A's tonight are Rakhshani, DiBenedetto, and Katic.

F:  Rakhshani-Ullstrom-DiBenedetto

     Niederreiter-Strome-McNeely

     Kabanov- Cizikas-Persson

     Gallant-Romano-Theoret

D: Katic-de Haan

     Donovan-Ness

     Pedan-Bidlevskii

     Kichton-Olson

G: Koskinen

Isles Notes:

Katie Strang has moved on to ESPN.com. Arthur Staple to cover the Islanders for Newsday.

In other news:

Sadly, it has been reported that lone team survivor and Lokomotiv forward, Alexander Galimov passed away today from his injuries sustained in the crash.  R.I.P.

Photo taken from Greg Wyshynski @ Puck Daddy.