{"id":424805,"date":"2026-01-24T03:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/424805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T03:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:21:11","slug":"islanders-expected-to-recall-isaiah-george-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/424805\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Expected To Recall Isaiah George \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Islanders are expected to turn towards a top prospect to help them with injuries. Defenseman Isaiah George<\/a> appears to have been recalled to the NHL just before the AHL\u2019s Bridgeport Islanders\u2019 Friday night game per Stefen Rosner of The Hockey News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This would be George\u2019s first call-up of the 2025-26 season. He has spent the first half of the year in a focused role with Bridgeport, that he\u2019s rewarded with 10 points, 10 penalty minutes, and a plus-five in 24 games. That performance is a hardy step up from the 14 points and minus-16 that George recorded in 33 AHL games last season. He also played the first 33 games of his NHL career last year, netting five points and a minus-three. Through a struggled stat line, George showed flashes of two-way upside at the NHL and AHL level last season. He has looked well improved in the minor-leagues this season. With better footing, George could be set to make a stronger push for an NHL role.<\/p>\n

He could see ice time right out of the gates as New York looks to address a day-to-day injury<\/a> to top-four defenseman Ryan Pulock<\/a>. Extra defenseman Cole McWard<\/a> would be the de facto replacement if Pulock couldn\u2019t played. McWard has scored 16 points in 29 AHL games and no points in three NHL games this season. He is also a right-handed shot, which wouldn\u2019t pair as nicely with righty Adam Boqvist<\/a> as the left-handed George. That could be enough to earn George a shot at his first NHL game of the season, should Pulock need to miss time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Islanders are expected to turn towards a top prospect to help them with injuries. Defenseman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[11464,19218,5,19497,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4,5549,405],"class_list":["post-424805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-new-york-islanders","tag-adam-boqvist","tag-cole-mcward","tag-hockey","tag-isaiah-george","tag-islanders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-pulock","tag-transactions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}