Staff: 7th 2025: 11th Readers: 7th “Once a guy like this gets his shot, he could seize it and run with it.” That quote is from Silver Seven’s own Ross Arnold in his T25U25 entry for Stephen Halliday last year, where he ranked 11th on our board.
The Ottawa Senators announced this week that 3 players will be changing their numbers this upcoming season. Stephen Halliday will go back to wearing the 34 he regularly wore in Belleville while Carter Yakemchuk will also go back to his Belleville and Calgary Hitmen number 26.
After 30 games with the Ottawa Senators, Stephen Halliday recently inked a two-year, $2.15 million contract extension with the club. A native of Ajax, Ontario, Halliday tallied 11 points (four goals, seven assists) with Ottawa after being a point-per-game player in 29 games with the Belleville Senators this season.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
A young prospect is going to stay near the nation’s capital for the next couple of years. On Tuesday, Ottawa Senators general manager Steve Staios announced that the team has re-signed forward Stephen Halliday to a two-year contract extension.
The Ottawa Senators announced today that forward Stephen Halliday and goaltender Hunter Shepard have been reassigned to the team’s AHL affiliate, the Belleville Senators.
Stephen Halliday scored two goals and had an assist, Brady Tkachuk had three assists and Dylan Cozens also scored twice as the Ottawa Senators cruised to a 7-1 victory over the visiting Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday.
The Ottawa Senators announced today that forward Stephen Halliday has been recalled from the team’s 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.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The Ottawa Senators may not be actively shopping young center Stephen Halliday, but that hasn’t stopped other NHL teams from quietly doing their homework.
With the Ottawa Senators gearing up for the 2025–26 NHL season, the buzz is all about the big names. There’s no doubt that Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stützle, and Jake Sanderson are this team’s core.
Stephen Halliday came into last season with a decent amount of hype. He had turned pro after two years as a point-per-game player at The Ohio State. He hit the ground running with 5 assists in his first 10 games in Belleville, but he really made an impact in the playoffs, with 2 goals and 7 assists in 7 games.
LOS ANGELES – The 2025 NHL Draft has finally completed. Didn’t that feel like an eternity? Between the two days, teams spent nine hours making their selections remotely in the NHL’s first – and hopefully last – decentralized draft.
When the Ottawa Senators drafted Stephen Halliday in 2022, a lot of his game projected well for the NHL. At 6-foot-4, he had the size to handle the physical grind of pro hockey but also demonstrated unbelievable patience and great offensive instincts with the puck.
The Ottawa Senators’ Prospect of the Week of Nov. 4-10 is Stephen Halliday. In two games against the Laval Rocket, the 22-year-old American Hockey League (AHL) rookie scored a goal and registered two primary assists, which led all Senators’ prospects last week and was the second most-productive player on the Belleville Senators.
If there was ever prime example of the saying, “If you don’t succeed, try, try again.” it’s Ottawa Senators’ prospect Stephen Halliday. Not being drafted until age 20, Halliday is the epitome of a player who worked his way through the ranks to earn a two-year, entry-level contract signed in March.