Team Canada WJC Camp & Isles Notes

Team Canada will hold its camp to select players for its final roster to compete in the 2014 WJC's from August 4th thru the 10th in Brossard, Que. and Lake Placid N.Y.  Canada has invited 3 goaltenders, 12 defensemen and 20 forwards to the camp.

 

 

Current hopefuls have been selected by former Isles assistant general manager & amateur scouting director, Ryan Jankowski who now serves as Hockey Canada senior director of hockey operations.  While with the NYI, Jankowski had a part in drafting "John Tavares, Kyle Okposo, Travis Hamonic, Josh Bailey, Matt Martin, Kirill Petrov, Kirill Kabanov, Andrew MacDonald, Brock Nelson, David Ullstrom, Kevin Poulin, Calvin de Haan, Mikko Koskinen and Casey Cizikas," per IPB.

 

Isles prospects that were invited to Canada's WJC camp include, Griffin Reinhart, Ryan Pulock and Adam Pelech. Unfortunately, Adam Pelech had to withdraw from consideration due to injury.

 

 

 

Isles Notes:

The NYI Booster Club has a new Web Page.


Would Tim Thomas be the goalie that could help the Isles take the next step for the upcoming season? Even after sitting out a year?  Should Isles just have tolled his contract into this season & paid him $5M or take the chance on signing him to a lower FA signing price.  Or should the Isles just stick with Nabokov & avoid Thomas or work out a trade or watch waivers to add another goalie later in the season?  I don't think Thomas is the short term answer for the Isles.

Islanders forward, Frans Nielsen was recognized by NHL.com for his talents as a shootout star.  "Only one active player with 20 or more shootout attempts has cashed in on more than half of them. That player is Nielsen, who has scored on 25 of his 45 tries for a 55.6-percent success rate -- despite going 2-for-7 (.286) last season. Nielsen's trademark move is a backhand deke, though he's started mixing up his repertoire by using a quick-release wrister as well."

 

5/3 Isles comeback vs. Pittsburgh, one of the best from last season per NHL.com.

Former Islander D, Chris Campoli who negotiated on behalf of the NHLPA during the lockout, has signed with HC Lugano for 2013-14 in Switzerland.

 

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins announced today that they have signed former Isles prospect goaltender Peter Manino to an American Hockey League contract.

Isles assistant coach Doug Weight and former captain Bill Guerin have both selected as part of the 2013 U.S Hockey Hall of Fame Class.

@stevelepore:  Just been announced that Big Shot, the 30 for 30 film on former Isles owner John Spano, will air Oct. 22.

So, with only a 10 yr lease extension for Rags @ MSG, what might Dolans real aim be to develop NVMC HUB.  Here's what Penn Station looked like before the architecture was raised to build MSG on top of the station.

 

B.D. Gallof posted a High Democratic source's reaction to the latest on the HUB.  "Once we lost the Islanders – which the interest by these major players demonstrates we should not have – the issue of what type of Coliseum becomes a bit silly. There is no anchor. The shame of it all is that when Wang was unwilling to front the cost and the taxpayers were unwilling to support the borrowing, Mangano should have reached out to outside groups and maybe – just maybe – we would be talking about a new 18,000 seat Coliseum for the Islanders built by one of these two groups."