Rookie Camp Announced & Other Stuff

Your New York Islanders announced today that their Rookie Camp Begins on Friday.  Michael Dal Colle, Joshua Ho Sang, Anders Lee and all the attending prospects will skate at the NVMC from Sep. 12-17.  On-Ice work outs will take place each day with an off day on Sunday.  Brent Thompson will most likely oversee the squad to help the organization evaluate the assembled talent, especially to see who might make the cut with the Isles and who could get an opportunity with Bridgeport.

While on the topic of prospects, @IslesBlog mentions that NHL.com announced their top 60 prospects. Out of the 6 writers who contributed Dal Colle mentioned 5x, Reinhart 5x, Pulock 3x, Pokka 1x.  Official list has Reinhart at 20th, and Dal Colle at 28th. Rest didn't make the cut.

Meanwhile, several veteran and rostered players got in some early team style workouts at Isles Iceworks prior to the official start to training camp on September 18th.  Per Arthur Staple, Bailey, Grabovski, Lee, Pokka, Strait, Skille & Cizikas were among the players present for today's skate. Halak and Johnson were there as well.  The team is eager to start the final season at the coliseum.  A healthy John Tavares said he was optimistic for the upcoming season based on the additions made to the roster over the off season while Kyle Okposo was quoted as saying "We want to give [the fans] the proper sendoff and have the best season possible," when asked about the team's last season at Coliseum. 

Between the vastly improved goaltending situation with Jaro Halak and Chad Johnson, with Mikhail Grabovski and Nikolai Kulemin heading up a nice group of prospects and recent additions at forward to give the Isles a much more competitive core up front.  Probable new roster players like TJ Brennan and Kevin Czucman will join guys like Griffin Reinhart, Ville Pokka, Scott Mayfield & Ryan Pulock in their attempts to stake a claim in a defensive line up that needs to make a statement this season, especially if another veteran defensemen isn't added prior to the season opener.

 

 

Isles Notes:

Per Arthur Staple, "Tavares and Okposo are on the NHL national media tour, will join skate later in the week."

Per @NHLhistorygirl, "On this date in 2013, Isles named John Tavares captain."

On Friday, Isles TJ Brennan, @Conhockey19, @leeberr09 & @ColinMcDonald13 are signing autographs at @BarclaysCenter.

NHL.com lists John Tavares at no. 7 overall in its Top 275 rankings.  Other Isles include Okposo (67), Halak (133), Grabovski (216), Nelson (222), Visnovksy (229), Strome (237), Nielsen (259).

Mike Bossy joins MSG as studio analyst for 'Hockey Night Live' and Islanders games

 

Just three weeks remaining in the Greatest Isles vote! Choose your top-15 Isles of all-time.

Individual game tickets are on sale for the first half of the 2014-15 season. 

Per Cory Pronman, "NYI prospect Ilya Sorokin with a 37 save shutout to start his KHL season. Very interesting goalie prospect, could have a big year."  Only one game for KHL stats today: NYI Sorokin stops 51/54 (.944) in a 3-2 OT loss. Has stopped 111/117 to start the season.  Sorokin was selected with the 78th pick in the 3rd round of this years NHL Entry Draft.

Arthur Staple noted that Radek Martinek was skating at Iceworks to maintain his conditioning in hopes for a camp invite somewhere.

 

Rick DiPietro loves his new gig talking sports on the radio.

Jordan Hart, son of former Isles player Gary Hart, has been arrested on suspicion of supplying Boogaard w/ drugs playing role in his death.  Two individuals have been charged in distribution of oxycodone that lead to overdose death of former NHL player, Derek Boogaard.  According to indictment, both minor-league hockey player Jordan Hart and physician assistant Oscar Johnson have been charged.

 

David Leggio's new Isles tribute Mask:

 

NHL Notes:

Condolences to Suter family on the passing of 1980 Olympian Bob Suter; Statement from USAH.

Stephane Quintal to lead NHL Department of PlayerSafety.   

Other Notes:

My friends at Isles Insight have this new shirt and it's pretty sweet.