Posts filtered on Category

Category: Joensuu

Joensuu returns (with notes updated)

The Islanders announced this afternoon that they’ve signed Jesse Joensuu to a one-year, one-way deal. The one-way part already made it unlikely he’d be sent to Bridgeport, and Arthur Staple reports

First salvo: Joensuu eastward

Jesse Joensuu will play in Sweden this year and next with HV71, the team announced earlier today. They call him a “young, developable and hungry power forward.” He’ll surely play a lot over there. I’d

Free agents week begins

Katie Strang tweeted this morning that six Islanders Group II players have been tendered their qualifying offers, which will make them restricted free agents come Friday. Most notably for Bridgeport

News of the Worlds*

The Boston Herald tracked down Greg Cronin in Europe, and Cronin denied the report from Saturday night that he was going anywhere. Also, the Islanders just announced that Jesse Joensuu will play in

So far Thursday:

–Katic recalled for the first time, expected to make his NHL debut tonight at Philly. –Joensuu sent down. –Colliton also down after clearing waivers. Team was supposed to be leaving around this

Well, that helped

“It was a nice gift,” Jesse Joensuu said. “But I’ve had gifts taken away from me before.” Gift 1: A chip-out comes to the Sharks’ blue line, toward Jay Leach with Joe Loprieno there as well. Leach

Quick morning summary

–The big club recently made it official that Jesse Joensuu and Dylan Reese are called up before they hit the road for a week and a half. –Jean Bourbeau was under the weather this morning, so they

Joensuu down

Islanders recently announced they’ve sent Jesse Joensuu to Bridgeport. Edit: Unrelated entirely, but had to throw this on: As seen on Uni Watch, Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe, 1979 WHA All-Star Game.

What happened here, Vol. 371

We’ve seen some crazy stuff around here. We’ve seen Louis DeBrusk send a playoff series to Game 7. We’ve watched Drew Fata take a penalty in the last two minutes, and Bridgeport score short-handed to

Catching up

–Jesse Joensuu called up for the first time this year. –Along with Wes O’Neill and Olivier Labelle, Bridgeport went to Reading one more time for Chris Blight on a PTO. He’s 28, a right winger, spent