{"id":432650,"date":"2026-01-25T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432650\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:12:08","slug":"george-makes-season-debut-for-the-islanders-its-where-you-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432650\/","title":{"rendered":"George Makes Season Debut for the Islanders: \u201cIt\u2019s Where You Want to Be\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through 24 games in Bridgeport this season, George recorded 10 points (2G, 8A) along with a plus-five rating. Now he\u2019ll jump onto a moving train and help the Isles, which can be challenging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously when you\u2019re playing somewhere else, you get used to the guys you\u2019re playing with and the systems, the little things.,\u201d George said. \u201cAnd then when you come to a new team mid-swing, it\u2019s like catching up on those little details and getting used to playing with guys. The NHL is a faster, harder league. So just getting re-acclimated to that too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His teammates are excited to see him back at the NHL level and had a positive assessment of George\u2019s season debut on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was really good,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/islanders\/player\/bo-horvat-8477500?article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bo Horvat<\/a> said. \u201cJumping in at this part of the season, it\u2019s not easy, especially with the injuries he\u2019s dealt with too. I thought he looked good tonight and he\u2019ll continue to look better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George has been familiar with the Islanders locker room for quite a while \u2013 he\u2019s built friendships with the guys through his four training camps on Long Island and his 33 games last year. He was happy to be back on Saturday for a chance to stick around again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s awesome, they were great to me last year and in camp this year too,\u201d George said. \u201cIt\u2019s great to see the guys again. All smiles when I came up here this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through 24 games in Bridgeport this season, George recorded 10 points (2G, 8A) along with a plus-five rating.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-432650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}