{"id":438811,"date":"2023-06-29T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438811"},"modified":"2023-06-29T16:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:16:38","slug":"chicago-get-bailey-from-islanders-will-buy-him-out","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chicago-get-bailey-from-islanders-will-buy-him-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago get Bailey from Islanders; will buy him out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Blackhawks signed veteran Josh Bailey from the New York Islanders today. Right after that, the franchise put him on unconditional waivers for the goal of a buyout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Isles<\/a> have traded forward Josh Bailey and 2026 2nd round pick to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Blackhawks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Blackhawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders will lose their Assistant Captain and longest tenured player in the deal that frees up much needed cap space to sign their pending free agents.<\/p>\n<p>Final Statistical Ranks for Josh\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GmiiZgVswt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GmiiZgVswt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Isles Den (@IslesDen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IslesDen\/status\/1674430377681891330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chicago also acquired a 2nd round pick in 2026 for future considerations.<\/p>\n<p>The 9<sup>th<\/sup> overall pick at the 2008 NHL Draft, Josh played 1,057 matches in his NHL career in 15 campaigns with the franchise. Bailey is 3<sup>rd<\/sup> all-time in matches played in the Islanders\u2019 history. In the past season, he played 64 matches as he, scored 8 goals and gave 17 assists.<\/p>\n<p>In his career, he notched 184 goals and had 196 assists.<\/p>\n<p>He was also part of the Canadian national team at the 2018 IIHF World Hockey Championship in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Josh was scheduled to begin the final season of a 6-year, 30-million contract. While Josh\u2019s cap is 5 million dollars, his real salary is 3.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Blackhawks signed veteran Josh Bailey from the New York Islanders today. Right after that, the franchise put him on unconditional waivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438812,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17008,20179,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17849,20180,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Blackhawks will buyout the player.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438811"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438811"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}