Posts About "Kieffer Bellows"
Islanders' Next Few Weeks Determine Season
February 9th, 2020 With only one point separating the New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers, it comes as no surprise that every game is huge. They have played closer to "the Islander Way" since coming back from the All-Star break, but the next six games against over-.500 teams will be a make-or-break scenario. Playoff Implications The Islanders...
Islanders' Bellows Impresses in Debut
February 5th, 2020 After one NHL game, New York Islanders forward Kieffer Bellows is now only 1,187 points behind his father, Brian Bellows, after scoring his first career point in a 4-3 overtime win against the Dallas Stars. After playing most of the season in the AHL with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, the Islanders needed help offensively and chose their...
Islanders' Internal Options to Fix Scoring Woes
January 13th, 2020 The New York Islanders are one of the best teams in the NHL, but they struggle to find consistent secondary scoring. While being the fifth-best team in the league in goals allowed per game, the Islanders rank only 26th in goals for. Lou Lamoriello has made one trade since becoming the Islanders president/general manager in 2018,...
Islanders Need to Call Up Bellows
January 6th, 2020 The New York Islanders were the story of the NHL season throughout October and November. Even with all the injuries they've had, New York just kept on winning with all their replacements from the American Hockey League. As the Islanders enter the New Year, they are in need of scoring help. While it is tough to make a trade at this time...
Islanders Prospects Are the Key to Offensive Success
August 28th, 2019 This past season, the New York Islanders were the best defensive team in hockey, only allowing 191 goals, nine fewer than the second-ranked Dallas Stars, and 110 fewer than the last-place Ottawa Senators. The play of both Robin Lehner and Thomas Greiss, as well as the coaching of Jack Adams winner Barry Trotz, turned the Islanders...
5 Islanders Prospects Key to Long-Term Success
August 10th, 2019 The New York Islanders have the fundamentals and depth in place for this team to be not only competitive but contenders for the next decade. This quiet offseason, to much of the chagrin to the fanbase, is quiet for a reason. Their farm system. With upcoming unrestricted free agent contracts that expire at this end of this season and...
Islanders' Bellows Deserves Roster Spot
September 23rd, 2018 Heading into New York Islanders training camp, there were a few players highlighted as bubble players with the best chance to make the team. That list consisted of young guns like Josh Ho-Sang and Sebastian Aho and veterans like Luca Sbisa (at camp on a professional tryout contract) and Tom Kühnhackl. However, halfway through the...
Islanders Impress in Trotz's First Game
September 17th, 2018 Could it have gone any better than the way it did? Sunday afternoon, the New York Islanders returned to Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to kick off their busy preseason schedule and host the Philadelphia Flyers. It was the team's first game on Long Island since their preseason game against the Flyers last year on Sept. 17, 2017, and...
Kieffer Bellows Holds the Keys to His Future
April 15th, 2018 The Portland Winterhawks saw their season come to a close to the Everett Silvertips on Friday night, and with that star forward Kieffer Bellows must begin to contemplate what the future holds for his career and where he will play next season. The soon to be 20-year-old Bellows was drafted 19th overall by the New York Islanders in the...
NCAA Experience Earns NHL Debuts
March 21st, 2018 In less than a month, the regular season will be over and the playoffs will begin. But before the league’s top teams battle in the postseason, we can expect a handful of rising up-and-comers to make NHL debuts in the final weeks of the 2017-18 season. Last year, the brilliant goal scorer Brock Boeser of the Vancouver Canucks debuted...
Kieffer Bellows is Flying High With the Portland Winterhawks
February 15th, 2018 Portland Winterhawks forward Kieffer Bellows has been on quite the journey over the past year. Last winter, he was playing through his freshman year at Boston University, and, in the summer to follow, made the tough decision to change course and join Portland in the Western Hockey League. On top of all that, there was a training camp...
Kieffer Bellows - Islanders Prospect is the Real Deal
January 8th, 2018 Drafted as the 19th overall pick in the first round of the 2016 NHL Draft, New York Islanders' prospect Kieffer Bellows has the tools to become a future superstar for years to come. The Edina, Minnesota native is known for his goal scoring ability, as well as the physical presence he brings to the ice. The 19-year old phenom signed a...
2018 WJC Team USA Final Roster for Buffalo
December 25th, 2017 With the World Junior Championships set to kick off this week, the United States have announced the roster they'll be sending to the tournament to defend their title of World Champions from a year ago (a roster that looks pretty similar to the one that was previewed on THW in the past). Winning a gold medal for your country is an honor...
