{"id":557010,"date":"2026-04-21T01:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557010\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:22:35","slug":"sonny-milano-linked-to-swiss-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557010\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Milano Linked To Swiss League"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a health perspective, this has been a good year for Capitals winger Sonny Milano.\u00a0 However, he\u2019s currently in the minors playing for Hershey, an outcome he likely wasn\u2019t expecting coming into the season.\u00a0 The pending UFA appears to be eyeing a change of scenery for 2026-27 as Watson\u2019s Klaus Zaugg reports<\/a> that Milano is expected to sign with SC Bern in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old missed the majority of last season with an upper-body injury.\u00a0 He attempted to come back from it but suffered a setback, one that put the beginning of 2025-26 in jeopardy.\u00a0 However, he was able to play at the start of the year and made Washington\u2019s roster out of training camp.<\/p>\n

While Milano played regularly in the first week of the year, playing time started to become more sporadic after that as he spent considerable time as a scratch.\u00a0 Then, following the Olympic break, he lost his roster spot and cleared waivers, paving the way for him to join Hershey for his first taste of action in the minors since a 2022-23 conditioning stint.<\/p>\n

Milano played in 31 games for the Capitals this season, picking up four goals and four assists while playing just 8:53 per night.\u00a0 He has played almost exclusively in the bottom six over his four years with Washington although he still managed 15 goals in 2023-24 in spite of his limited usage.\u00a0 Meanwhile, he has been productive with the Bears, tallying 13 points in 16 games.\u00a0 He\u2019ll still be playing for the time being with Hershey beginning a best-of-three playoff series versus Bridgeport on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Given Milano\u2019s last couple of years and the fact that he had a hard time securing a contract in free agency in 2022, he profiles as more of a PTO candidate if he decides to test the open market this summer.\u00a0 Instead, it appears he\u2019ll bypass doing that and lock down a top role in the Swiss league to continue his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a health perspective, this has been a good year for Capitals winger Sonny Milano.\u00a0 However, he\u2019s currently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,5,4,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-557010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-capitals","13":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116440081606291855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557010","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=557010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}