Lobbying for player development (in the comments)

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  1. Jessica Z says:
    July 29, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Still nobody has signed Tyler Haskins? He showed major improvement over the season.

  2. Sneekypete says:
    July 28, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    Joensuu – Moore – Smith
    Moulson – Mauldin – Dibenedetto
    Benty- Marcinko – Figren
    Reich – Haley – Rechlicz

    Extra F- Morency,Hennigar
    Utah gets -Dale and Romano

    Macdonald-Kohn
    Katic -Flood
    Wotton -Westgarth

    Ex D- Gleed

    Munroe
    Koskinen

    Hennigar just seemed very passive last season hopefully he steps it up this year or he will be a career ECHL`r
    Marcinko will suprise many this year and may also be this teams best PK`r unless they resign Haskins

  3. islesinfo says:
    July 28, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    There’s absolutely no chance Koskinen will play in Utah. The Bridgeport team is first and foremost development for the New York Islanders. Making the playoffs for them is nice but comes second in line. The Islanders want Koskinen to be on the Island sooner rather than later. I believe he will see action in no less than 30 games. If anyone will end up in Utah it will be Lawson, if he’s even signed. The fact that he isn’t by now is not very promising. Koskinen IS signed to quite a significant contract, which has to show you something. As for Romano, he is signed to a 3 year deal.

  4. anon says:
    July 28, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    I think Doug is pretty close but I’d expect different D pairings.

    McDonald – Kohn
    Wotton – Katic
    Flood – Gleed

    I’m thinkin Koskinen to Utah where he can get a lot of games in early in the season. He’s not gonna adjust to the smaller ice riding pine in BPT.

  5. Doug says:
    July 28, 2009 at 9:18 am

    Forwards

    Joensuu – Moore – Smith
    Moulson – Mauldin – Sim
    Bentivoglio – DiBenedetto – Figren
    Reich – Haley – Rechlicz

    Extras – Morency
    ECHL – Hennigar, Marcinko, Dale, Romano (if signed)

    Defense

    MacDonald – Wotton
    Katic – Gleed
    Kohn – Flood

    Extra – Westgarth

    Goalie

    Munroe
    Lawson (if signed?)

    Extra – Koskinen

    Notes: Sim is not playing for the Islanders again; my guess is if he passes waivers (he did twice last year) he plays on the Sound Tigers. Like you, I’m not sure this is the final line-up, seems weak at centre and scoring overall. The goalie situation seems a little unclear. Do you think the Isles see Lawson as an AHL number one at this stage? I would think Munroe believes he’ll be the number one? How do you expect them to bring along Koskinen – maybe get him 20 games? Doesn’t seem enough to go around. This does not look like a playoff team; I would think the Isles are missing a lot of valuable experience for some of their kids by not having them involved in solid playoff runs in the AHL.

    Your thoughts?