{"id":63063,"date":"2025-08-06T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63063\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:10:09","slug":"islanders-sign-sean-day-to-ahl-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63063\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Sign Sean Day To AHL Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AHL\u2019s Bridgeport Islanders have signed left-shot defenseman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dayse01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sean Day<\/a>\u00a0to a one-year AHL deal, according to a club <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeportislanders.com\/news\/detail\/bridgeport-islanders-sign-sean-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announcement<\/a>. He\u2019ll presumably get a look in the Isles\u2019 NHL camp on a PTO in hopes of turning that into an NHL contract before heading down to Bridgeport.<\/p>\n<p>Day, 27, is long removed from his days as an \u201cexceptional status\u201d defender who gained entrance to high-level junior hockey in the OHL a year early. He was a third-round pick by the Rangers by the time he became draft-eligible in 2016 and never turned that into full-time NHL minutes. He only made his big-league debut a few years ago, skating in two games for the Lightning in the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgium-born Canadian has spent most of his professional career in the Tampa organization, suiting up primarily for the AHL\u2019s Syracuse Crunch from 2020-21 through 2023-24. His performance was inconsistent during that time, peaking with 40 points in 69 games in 2021-22 before bottoming out with only 14 assists in 63 games the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Day landed another two-way contract with the Bolts for 2023-24 but again went without NHL action, posting a 5-14\u201323 scoring line in 54 games for Syracuse with a -3 rating. That led him to explore a short-term exodus to Europe, signing with HV71 of the Swedish Hockey League. He made 45 appearances for the top-flight club with diminished results. He had 11 points and a -18 rating in the regular season before adding an assist and a +4 rating in six relegation games to help them avoid demotion to the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan for 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll be one-and-done overseas as he returns to a more comfortable environment in North America, this time without the initial opportunity for an NHL call-up. He\u2019ll provide 379 games of pro experience to a reshaped Bridgeport blue line that should have some younger, dynamic Isles prospects like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/georgis01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isaiah George<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/709399\/jesse-pulkkinen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jesse Pulkkinen<\/a>\u00a0playing significant roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AHL\u2019s Bridgeport Islanders have signed left-shot defenseman\u00a0Sean Day\u00a0to a one-year AHL deal, according to a club announcement.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[391,394,385,46708,99,6182],"class_list":["post-63063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-sean-day","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}