from Arthur Staple of Newsday,

"Enough with the bull. It's time to grow up."

Those were the harsh words Islanders general manager Garth Snow had Saturday about Josh Ho-Sang, the Isles' talented prospect whom Snow dismissed from training camp on Friday morning. Ho-Sang overslept and missed the shuttle to get to IceWorks for the first day of camp, causing Snow to come down hard on the 19-year-old forward.

Snow would not elaborate on the punishment, but a team source told Newsday that Ho-Sang was forced to run the stairs at Nassau Coliseum for three hours on Friday before the general manager verbally dressed Ho-Sang down and sent him back to Niagara of the Ontario League.

"He's obviously very talented, but talent isn't the issue," Snow told Newsday. "It's about becoming a professional and acting like one. Hopefully he takes this lesson and learns from it. It's really up to him now -- we can't do anything else for him in this area."

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