Boston Bruins: Does Joshua Ho-Sang hold any interest?

It’s not exactly a secret around the league that Joshua Ho-Sang is available; would the Boston Bruins prove a viable change of scenery for the former first round pick?

Obviously, what we’re talking about here would require some slightly outside-of-the-box moves given that the Boston Bruins already have a pretty solid cohort of forwards. However, Joshua Ho-Sang, perhaps, in a new environment and with mentors in the room like Patrice Bergeron and Zdeno Chara might be a valuable pick-up for them to consider.

Given he was a first round pick (albeit a late one at 28th) in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, it’s clear the New York Islanders saw some value and potential in the player. For whatever reason, it hasn’t panned out within that organisation for him.

Now a lot of the reading you do online would suggest this is a result of a poor attitude or questionable work ethic on the part of Joshua Ho-Sang. Obviously we don’t know whether there is truth to that or not but perhaps the higher average age in the Boston Bruins’ room would be a great asset to his development.

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Thus far this year, it seems like Karson Kuhlman has made the second-line right wing spot his for the keeping, but if you brought in Ho-Sang provided of course the outlay wasn’t steep, maybe he eventually wins that spot.

He has after all, in the past, proven his ability to score points at the NHL level and just last year was near the point-per-game margin in the American Hockey League.

Joshua Ho-Sang is a player with potential, even at 23 years old; he has speed and is able to show great creativity at the offensive end of the ice. His two-way game; that leaves something to be desired as does, reportedly, his general attitude. There’s certainly risk that he upsets the locker-room, not least among those border-line NHLers that have grafted to make it to the big league.

Now, the Boston Bruins aren’t really known for these sorts of reclamation projects necessarily with so many of the current roster being given plenty of time to mature through the collegiate route before graduating to the minor league and then main roster. However, Joshua Ho-Sang may be an exception to the rule, or he may not.

Either way, he’s an interesting player and is quite clearly available. Would I like to see the Boston Bruins take a risk on him; possibly.

With his cheap deal – a one year term with a salary cap hit of just $874,125; maybe you can trick Lou Lamoriello to take one of our spare parts (on bigger salaries) in return, maybe a Kevan Miller or John Moore?

If that were the deal, surely you’d take the risk. If it doesn’t pay off, ditch the player; a no-show in the minors will practically end his North American career and if his attitude is truly that bad, he’s not worth the effort anyway.

Worth a look; yes. Worth investing in; maybe. Let’s see if we get any offense firing first and whether there really any pieces on the Boston Bruins roster that we could comfortably lose.