{"id":775652,"date":"2026-07-21T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/775652\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:25:25","slug":"ryan-healey-on-islanders-trade-first-development-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/775652\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Healey on Islanders Trade, First Development Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Draft Weekend, the New York Islanders made a point of addressing organizational defensive depth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three of the team&#8217;s five picks were defensemen, but after day two of the draft concluded, the team acquired another blueliner, bringing in Ryan Healey from the Minnesota Wild for future considerations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was super excited and It\u2019s a great organization. They\u2019re really nice and welcoming to me. \u201d Healey said during Islanders Development Camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Healey was caught by surprise when he got the call about the trade, but he got to immediately share the news with his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was actually out to dinner with my family when I got the call.&#8221; Healey said. &#8220;We were all really excited&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Healey is played four NCAA seasons with Harvard, totaling 55 points (19G, 36A) in 130 games. The 6&#8217;0,&#8221; 172 lbs. blueliner recorded 12 points (4G, 8A) in the 2025-26 season, where he ranked second in scoring amongst Harvard defensemen. His career high was 22 points (9G, 13A) in 29 games in the 2023-24 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a great experience at Harvard. My teammates were great and I\u00a0learned a lot from them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Draft Weekend, the New York Islanders made a point of addressing organizational defensive depth.\u00a0 Three of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-775652","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\/775652","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=775652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}