Lightning re-sign defenseman Sean Day to a one-year, two-way contract

TAMPA BAY - The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed defenseman Sean Day to a one-year, two-way contract, vice president and general manager Julien BriseBois announced today.

Day, 25, will enter his fourth season in the Lightning organization in 2023-24. Last season with the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League, Day skated in 63 games and tallied 14 assists and points, ranking sixth among Crunch defensemen in both categories. The 6-foot-3, 218-pound blueliner also saw action in one game during the 2023 Calder Cup Playoffs.

Day made his NHL debut skating in two games with the Lightning during the 2021-22 season. He saw his first NHL action December 28, 2021 versus Montreal and registered 6:43 time on ice. A game later, he recorded two shots in 14:43 at Florida. Day also appeared in 69 games for Syracuse that season, notching eight goals and 40 points to lead all Crunch defensemen for goals, assists (32) and scoring and rank fourth among all Crunch skaters for scoring.

Day has appeared in 223 career AHL games with the Crunch (2020-21 to 2022-23) and the Hartford Wolf Pack (2018-19 to 2019-20), posting 15 goals, 72 assists and 87 points. He was a third-round selection (81st overall) of the New York Rangers in the 2016 NHL Draft. A native of Leuven, Belgium, Day was a free agent signing of the Lightning on July 17, 2020.