{"id":122967,"date":"2026-01-18T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122967\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:24:08","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-reassign-goaltender-brandon-halverson-to-syracuse-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122967\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Reassign Goaltender Brandon Halverson To Syracuse Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 SYRACUSE, N.Y.\u00a0\u2013 The Tampa Bay Lightning have reassigned goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/syracusecrunch.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/brandon-halverson\/651\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"651\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Halverson<\/a> to the Syracuse Crunch today, Vice President and General Manager Julien BriseBois announced.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHalverson, 29, has appeared in 20 games for the Crunch this season and owns a 12-6-2 record with a 2.42 goals-against average and an .899 save percentage. Halverson has recorded three shutouts this season, tied for the second-most among all AHL goaltenders. The 6-foot-5, 235-pound netminder registered a five-game winning streak from November 19 to December 19, which included an assist on December 19 in a 5-3 win at Hartford.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA native of Traverse City, Michigan, Halverson has played in 129 career AHL games between the Crunch, Tucson Roadrunners and Hartford Wolfpack, posting a 59-49-17 record with a .901 save percentage, a 2.72 goals-against average, nine shutouts and three assists. He recorded his first career NHL start with the Lightning last season, a 6-4 loss March 22 at Utah.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHalverson\u00a0was originally drafted by the New York Rangers in the second round,\u00a059th\u00a0overall,\u00a0of the 2014 NHL Draft. He signed a two-year AHL contract with Syracuse on November 28, 2023 before inking a two-year, two-way contract with Tampa Bay on February 3, 2025.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTicket packages for the 2025-26 season are on sale now and can be purchased in person at the Crunch office located inside the Upstate Medical University Arena at Onondaga County War Memorial at 800 S. State St. in Syracuse, by calling the office at 315-473-4444 or online through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/artist\/806736?list_view=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ticketmaster<\/a>. For the latest Crunch news, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracusecrunch.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.syracusecrunch.com<\/a> or follow the club on Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/syracusecrunch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/syracusecrunch<\/a>), X (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/syracusecrunch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SyracuseCrunch<\/a>) and Instagram (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/syracusecrunch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@syracusecrunch<\/a>).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; SYRACUSE, N.Y.\u00a0\u2013 The Tampa Bay Lightning have reassigned goaltender Brandon Halverson to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-122967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}