There were a couple standouts in Thursday night’s Isles rookie scrimmage, a sold-out event at Northwell Health Ice Center. They’re not exactly surprises either.
Josh Ho-Sang thrived in the four-on-four format against the prospects and camp invitees. So did Anthony Beauvillier. Of the 50 players on the ice Thursday night, those two had by far the most NHL time last season, so they certainly should be able to dominate such an event.
But that doesn’t mean, especially in Beauvillier’s case, that this has been a week for him to slack off. The 20-year-old had nine goals and 15 assists in 66 games as a teenaged rookie last season, when the options were either stay with the big club or go back to junior hockey.