PHILADELPHIA – Josh Ho-Sang certainly wasn’t dissing the importance of practice. He wasn’t channeling former Philadelphia hoops star Allen Iverson, far from it.
But the Islanders right wing does believe evaluating a player in a game is different than a practice evaluation. Ho-Sang was one of several young prospects along with defensemen Devon Toews, Bode Wilde and Yannick Rathgeb and forward Michael Dal Colle who got into their first game of this preseason on Monday night against the Flyers at Wells Fargo Center.
“Because a game is something you need to win,” Ho-Sang said of the difference.