{"id":736949,"date":"2026-06-14T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736949\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:25:08","slug":"defenseman-sebastian-aho-signs-in-sweden-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736949\/","title":{"rendered":"Defenseman Sebastian Aho Signs In Sweden \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former New York Islanders defenseman Sebastian Aho<\/a> has signed with the V\u00e4xj\u00f6 Lakers of the SHL, the team announced today<\/a>. The deal ends his nine year term in North America, the last two of which were spent with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins of the AHL.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s news is not much of a surprise, as back in February<\/a> the 30-year-old was expected to return home to Sweden with V\u00e4xj\u00f6. Despite playing in 129 regular season games between his last two years on Long Island from 2022-24, Aho was unable to secure another NHL opportunity. Signing with Pittsburgh<\/a> for league-minimum two years ago, he did not see another shot at the highest level.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aho put together a strong 2022-23 campaign for the Islanders, his best as a pro, notching 23 points in 71 games. He got into all six playoff contests for the club that spring, too, which caused some added difficulty for play-by-play announcers as New York took on Carolina, being defeated in six games. Of no relation to the Hurricanes star center of the same name, Aho\u2019s puck-moving ability offers a skill not always seen as far as depth third-pairing options go, but at 5\u201910\u201d 180 lbs, size held him back at the NHL level.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The type of player who often is a high scorer in the AHL, Aho dealt with injuries over the last two years with Wilkes-Barre, not managing more than 29 games in either season. The 2017 fifth-round selection recorded exactly 14 points each, passing through waivers twice as the output was not enough to catch the attention of another NHL franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A product of Skellefte\u00e5 AIK, the lefty will be a big addition to the Lakers whose defense corps were largely led by former Canuck and standout AHLer Brogan Rafferty<\/a> last season, also featuring Keegan Lowe<\/a>, son of Hall of Famer Kevin Lowe<\/a>. One other expected future teammate of Aho worth mentioning is former Blackhawk and Duck Dennis Rasmussen<\/a>, now 35, still a top scorer on the team. V\u00e4xj\u00f6 had a strong season in 2025-26, finishing third before an eventual defeat in the semi-finals, now eager to pick up an NHL-pedigree blueliner whose 190 NHL contests are a team-high. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York Islanders defenseman Sebastian Aho has signed with the V\u00e4xj\u00f6 Lakers of the SHL, the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[6066,49,48,750,448,753,264797,6557,82],"class_list":["post-736949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sebastian-aho-defenseman","tag-shl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}