{"id":13437,"date":"2014-01-29T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stars-sign-garbutt-to-3-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:14:00","slug":"stars-sign-garbutt-to-3-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stars-sign-garbutt-to-3-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars sign Garbutt to 3-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Stars signed pending unrestricted free-agent forward Ryan Garbutt to a three-year contract extension on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old winger has posted a career-best 18 points, with 10 goals and eight assists, in 46 games for Dallas this season. He ranks third on the club in hits with 81.<\/p>\n<p>Garbutt served a five-game suspension earlier in the season for charging Anaheim Ducks forward Dustin Penner. Garbutt left his feet to deliver a high hit to the head area of Penner after the Anaheim wing was releasing a shot. He was not penalized for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ryan has snow that he is an effective, hard-hitting forward that plays the game with speed and tenacity,&#8221; said Stars general manager Jim Nill in a statement Wednesday. &#8220;Over the course of the season, he has earned the trust of his coaching staff and has played himself into a role where we ask him to play against our opponent&#8217;s top players on a nightly basis. It&#8217;s a great credit to the work he has put in and we&#8217;re excited to have him signed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A native of Winnipeg, Garbutt has recorded 15 goals and 16 assists in 102 NHL contests, all for the Stars, over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Stars signed pending unrestricted free-agent forward Ryan Garbutt to a three-year contract extension on Wednesday. The 28-year-old winger has posted a career-best 18 points, with 10 goals and eight assists, in 46 games for Dallas this season. He ranks third on the club in hits with 81. Garbutt served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}