Barry Trotz believes Oliver Wahlstrom and Kieffer Bellows will be "really good" NHL players. But that didn’t keep the Islanders’ rookies in the coach’s lineup on Sunday night against the Flyers at Wells Fargo Center.
The Islanders re-assigned Wahlstrom and Bellows to the taxi squad along with Leo Komarov, who had previously cleared waivers. Austin Czarnik and Dmytro Timashov were both brought up from the taxi squad to make their debuts with the Islanders, and rookie goalie Ilya Sorokin was brought back to make his third NHL start.
Wahlstrom played in the previous two games, scoring his first NHL goal.