Flyers Recall Justin Bailey from Phantoms

February 10, 2019 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Lehigh Valley Phantoms News Release

Forward Justin Bailey with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms
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Bailey, 23, has played in 10 games for the Phantoms this season, tallying five goals and two assists for seven points since being traded for Taylor Leier on January 17, 2019. Overall, Bailey has played 47 games in the American Hockey League this season for Lehigh Valley and the Rochester Americans totaling 27 points on 14 goals and 13 assists.

A native of Buffalo, Bailey has split time between Rochester and the Buffalo Sabres in each of the last three seasons. He played in 12 games for the Sabres last year, recording three goals and an assist for four points. In 52 career NHL games, all with Buffalo, Bailey has five goals and three assists for eight points.

The 6-foot-4 winger was a 20-goal scorer in each of his first two AHL seasons, posting 20 goals and 25 assists for 45 points in 75 games in 2015-16 and then picking up 23 goals and 13 assists for 46 points in 53 games a year later. Bailey has tallied 62 goals, 54 assists and 116 points in 196 games for the Rochester Americans.

Prior to turning pro, Bailey played three years in the Ontario Hockey League with Kitchener and Sault Ste. Marie, where he totaled 75 goals and 73 assists for 148 points in 168 career games. He was selected by the Sabres in the second round (52nd overall) of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.

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The Phantoms are coming off an incredibly successful fourth campaign in the Lehigh Valley playing at the state-of-the-art PPL Center in which the team claimed the Atlantic Division Championship and finished with the AHL's second-most wins (47) along with the league's second-highest standings points total (104) while advancing to the third round of the Calder Cup Playoffs for just the fourth time in franchise history.

Forward Justin Bailey with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms

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