{"id":551901,"date":"2026-03-20T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551901\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:54:10","slug":"islanders-plan-to-move-their-ahl-affiliate-to-hamilton-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551901\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders plan to move their AHL affiliate to Hamilton, Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 19, 2026, 07:29 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nyi\/new-york-islanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a> plan on moving their American Hockey League affiliate from Bridgeport, Connecticut to Hamilton, Ontario for next season, the franchise announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The relocation requires approval by the AHL Board of Governors.<\/p>\n<p>Should the move be permitted, the team currently known as the Bridgeport Islanders will play at TD Coliseum in Hamilton, which completed major renovations last fall.<\/p>\n<p>A team name, logo and ticketing information for the Hamilton market will be announced at a later date, pending AHL approval, the franchise said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to make Hamilton our primary affiliate in the American Hockey League,&#8221; Islanders general manager and executive vice president Mathieu Darche said in a statement. &#8220;The support the city has shown our organization throughout this transition has been incredible. We look forward to having our top young talent play in front of such a strong fanbase inside the newly renovated, world-class TD Coliseum and we are committed to establishing ourselves in the community to engage a new generation of hockey fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders&#8217; top minor-league affiliate has played in Bridgeport for the past 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 19, 2026, 07:29 PM ET NEW YORK &#8212; The New York Islanders plan on moving their American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-551901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}