{"id":421883,"date":"2026-01-22T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421883\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:19:10","slug":"ottawa-senators-recall-stephen-halliday-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421883\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Recall Stephen Halliday \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Senators <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/senators\/news\/halliday-already-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> today that forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hallist01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Halliday<\/a> has been recalled from the team\u2019s AHL affiliate, the Belleville Senators. Ottawa had an open spot on their 23-man active roster, meaning Halliday was able to be recalled without a corresponding move.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s transaction returns Halliday to the Senators\u2019 NHL roster under two weeks removed from his original reassignment. Halliday spent most of late November through early January skating in the Senators\u2019 lineup. The 23-year-old scored six points in 18 games, averaging 8:12 time on ice per game, including 2:04 per game on the power play.<\/p>\n<p>A 2022 second-round pick out of the USHL\u2019s Dubuque Fighting Saints, Halliday had a strong NCAA career with Ohio State before turning pro in the spring of 2024. He has been thoroughly impressive in the pro ranks, scoring 51 points in 71 games as an AHL rookie last year, and 26 points in 22 AHL games this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-4 center entered the season seen as one of Ottawa\u2019s more promising prospects. He was ranked the club\u2019s No. 4 prospect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/2025-26-nhl-prospect-pool-breakdown-ottawa-senators-top-10-yakemchuk-merilainen-hensler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">by Daily Faceoff<\/a>, and No. 7 in their system<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/news\/prospect-pool-rankings\/elite-prospects-2025-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-no-23-ranked-ottawa-senators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> by Elite Prospects<\/a>, with both outlets projecting middle-six potential for Halliday.<\/p>\n<p>Now back in the NHL, the goal for Halliday will be to earn a more substantial role than the one he received during his last stint in Ottawa. While he got a solid amount of power play time, he barely played at even strength. Halliday has every physical tool necessary to be able to make a shift-by-shift impact on the ice, and this transaction today will give him the opportunity to prove that.<\/p>\n<p>As a pending RFA whose entry-level contract is set to expire at the end of the year, Halliday has every incentive to string together quality NHL performances and secure his place in Ottawa\u2019s future plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators announced today that forward Stephen Halliday has been recalled from the team\u2019s AHL affiliate, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73,1087],"class_list":{"0":"post-421883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-senators","12":"tag-ottawasenators","13":"tag-senators","14":"tag-stephen-halliday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115939664076011024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}