{"id":795861,"date":"2026-07-31T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795861\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:47:09","slug":"islanders-notes-kuefler-wahlstrom-good-bogg-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795861\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Notes: Kuefler, Wahlstrom, Good Bogg \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Islanders prospect Dylan Kuefler<\/a>, who was playing in the ECHL as recently as January 2024, is a \u201cdark horse\u201d to make the team\u2019s NHL roster out of training camp, writes Stefen Rosner of The Elmonters<\/a>. According to Rosner, the Islanders are \u201cvery high\u201d on the 2022 sixth-round pick. Rosner\u2019s report should not come as a major surprise, as in recent years the Islanders have made a habit of turning relatively unheralded prospects into viable NHL bottom-six players. Both Kyle MacLean<\/a> and Marc Gatcomb<\/a> were undrafted signings who have ended up playing a notable number of NHL games over the last two or three seasons.<\/p>\n

Kuefler, 24, could be next in line for a role like MacLean or Gatcomb. He\u2019s a 6\u20192\u2033, 196-pound winger who has developed rapidly over the last year. After finishing his WHL career in 2022-23, Kuefler had a tough transition to pro hockey in 2023-24. He didn\u2019t make the Islanders\u2019 AHL team out of training camp, and began in the ECHL before earning his first AHL call-up in February. The following year, a preseason injury limited Kuefler to just 16 AHL games, and he only scored two points. But this past season, Kuefler was healthy and played in 67 games, scoring a career-high 10 goals and 25 points. If he can build on that breakout year, it doesn\u2019t feel like an NHL call-up is too far away for him based on Rosner\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n

Other notes from Long Island:<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, we covered reports indicating the Islanders were interested in bringing former 40-goal scorer Patrik Laine<\/a> to Long Island, but only on a tryout basis. Today, The Elmonters have reported Laine isn\u2019t the only former top prospect the team is potentially interested in signing to a PTO; Rosner \u201cwouldn\u2019t be shocked\u201d if the team signed 2018 No. 11 pick Oliver Wahlstrom<\/a> to a tryout agreement. Rosner stressed that any reunion with Wahlstrom would focus on improving the depth of the team\u2019s AHL affiliate, the Hamilton Hammers. The 26-year-old has proven to be a capable AHL scorer, and he had a career-high 24 goals and 42 points in 62 games last season.
\nIslanders prospect Dennis Good Bogg<\/a> has changed teams over in Sweden. New York\u2019s 2023 seventh-round pick has signed<\/a> with Mariestad, a club in HockeyEttan, which is the third tier of hockey in Sweden. The Stockholm native developed in the AIK youth system before graduating to pro hockey on a full-time basis in 2024-25. Good Bogg has spent time in Sweden\u2019s second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan, but has mostly played in the third tier over the last two campaigns. The Islanders hold the exclusive rights to sign Good Bogg until next summer, but it seems almost impossible for the defenseman to earn an entry-level deal for the club unless he can make a dramatic leap to the upper echelon of Swedish pro hockey early on in the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Islanders prospect Dylan Kuefler, who was playing in the ECHL as recently as January 2024, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[337826,337827,394,385,112671,99],"class_list":["post-795861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alexandre-doucet","tag-dylan-kuefler","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-oliver-wahlstrom","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795861","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=795861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}