EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — He is here and he is early. Josh Ho-Sang is trying to turn a corner in his professional career this season and it has started in this week of prospect camp that precedes Thursday’s full Islanders training camp by doing something that comes with every job: Being prompt.



That has not been Ho-Sang’s only mistake in the four years since former Islanders GM Garth Snow went out on a limb and picked Ho-Sang 28th overall in the 2014 draft. But oversleeping the first day of camp in 2015 was certainly the most glaring mistake Ho-Sang made and, despite playing 43 NHL games over the past two seasons, was one of the early steps down to last spring, when Ho-Sang finished the season listlessly in the AHL.



“I broke my hand in January and from there, it got really hard,” Ho-Sang told The Athletic on Monday. “Pretty much two weeks after I got sent down the second time, I broke my hand. And things got really hard after that. I...