This was an incredibly hard circumstance in which to make an NHL debut.
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What was not in anyone’s plans was for this to happen so soon for a player who made his AHL debut just last month. Or, for that matter, for this haphazard call-up to end up with such good results, with George skating 15:41, making just one notable error and playing well enough that Patrick Roy trusted him to be on the ice in overtime.
“The mindset is, he’s 20 years old,” Roy said. “But like I said to Lou in our conversation, I was also 20 and I’m sure, probably, my teammates were s–tting in their pants, how nervous they were when I played my first game.” Isaiah George of the New York Islanders skates in his first career NHL game against the Pittsburgh Penguins during the second period at UBS Arena on November 05, 2024 in Elmont, New York.“You know what, once the game started, it’s just hockey,” George said.
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