Morning Notes: Tikkanen, Calvert, Suvanto

By Ryan Long | at July 17, 2026 10:50 am The New York Islanders re-signed goaltender Henrik Tikkanen to a one-year, two-way contract worth $850,000 at the NHL level on Wednesday, per Puckpedia. The 25-year-old, a seventh-round pick in the 2020 draft, returns as organizational depth in a crease fronted by Ilya Sorokin and Semyon Varlamov, and has yet to appear in an NHL game. What makes Tikkanen stand out is his size. The native of Lohja, Finland, is among the tallest goaltenders in professional hockey at roughly 6-foot-8, and would become the tallest netminder in NHL history, surpassing 6-foot-7…