One of the few positive developments for the Islanders over the last couple of months of last season was Simon Holmstrom\u2019s emergence into the top six, with the Swede hitting the 20-goal mark for the first time.<\/p>\n
There had been a few false starts for Holmstrom in the top six, but this was the first time he asserted himself there and looked comfortable taking charge on offense. The results followed.<\/p>\n
So one of the more jarring parts of the Islanders\u2019 0-3-0 start to the season has been Holmstrom not only failing to win back a top-six role during camp, but getting dropped to the fourth line \u2014 where he last played at the tail end of the 2023-24 season \u2014 ahead of Saturday\u2019s loss to the Jets.<\/p>\n
Indicators in Wednesday\u2019s practice were that Holmstrom would be on the fourth line again in Thursday\u2019s home contest against the Oilers, as he skated with Casey Cizikas and Kyle MacLean. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the few positive developments for the Islanders over the last couple of months of last season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[186,394,385,75620,99,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-227774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-exclusive","9":"tag-new-york-islanders","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-simon-holmstrom","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}