The start of the 2018-19 season was tough for New York Islanders prospects. All of Devon Toews, Joshua Ho-Sang, Michael Dal Colle, and Kieffer Bellows were cut from camp.
While they didn’t all play well during camp, some did. Devon Toews had a good camp after coming back from injury. And we already knew that Toews had outgrown the AHL. But back to the Sound Tigers, he went. Same for Ho-Sang.
GM Lou Lamoriello reasoned that there were just had too many NHL contracts on the roster. On that point, Lou was the one who added NHL contracts like Tom Kuhnhackl, Leo Komarov, Valtteri Filppula, and Matt Martin in the offseason.