{"id":771976,"date":"2026-07-19T11:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771976\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:49:34","slug":"islanders-sign-tikkanen-new-york-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771976\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Sign Tikkanen | New York Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Islanders announced today that the club has signed\u00a0goaltender Henrik Tikkanen to a one-year, two-way (NHL\/AHL) contract.<\/p>\n<p>Tikkanen, 25, spent the majority of the 2025-26 season with Bridgeport, the Islanders\u2019 American Hockey League affiliate last season, where he set AHL career highs in minutes played (1,628) and wins (17), posting a 17-9-1 record with a 2.65 goals-against average and .897 save percentage. He also appeared in eight games with the Worcester Railers, going 5-2-1 with two shutouts, a 2.03 goals-against average and .929 save percentage, earning selection to the 2026 Warrior\/ECHL All-Star Classic roster.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-8 Lohja, Finland native has appeared in 77 games with Bridgeport over parts of the last three seasons (2023-26), compiling a 31-33-6 record with a 3.06 goals-against average and .892 save percentage. Tikkanen has also appeared in 73 ECHL games over four seasons with Worcester from 2022-26, going 36-30-6 with six shutouts, a 2.91 goals-against average and .910 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders selected Tikkanen in the seventh round (214th overall) of the 2020 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Islanders announced today that the club has signed\u00a0goaltender Henrik Tikkanen to a one-year, two-way (NHL\/AHL)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-771976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771976","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=771976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}