{"id":15440,"date":"2014-03-05T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/senators-get-hemsky-from-oilers\/"},"modified":"2014-03-05T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T20:00:23","slug":"senators-get-hemsky-from-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/senators-get-hemsky-from-oilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators get Hemsky from Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Ottawa Senators picked up forward Ales Hemsky from the Edmonton Oilers before Wednesday&#8217;s trade deadline, acquiring the veteran winger for a pair of draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>Hemsky, 30, heads to Ottawa for a fifth-round pick in 2014 and a third-rounder in 2015. The Czech Republic native has nine goals and 17 assists in 55 games with the Oilers this season.<\/p>\n<p>A first-round selection (13th overall) by the Oilers in 2001, Hemsky has recorded 142 goals and 335 assists for 477 points in 652 NHL games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just a mix of feelings,&#8221; said Hemsky. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to leave from here because I&#8217;ve been here for so long and I was comfortable here. I knew the city and the team and everything. It&#8217;s the only team I&#8217;ve been playing for so it&#8217;s kind of weird. Like I said, I&#8217;m ready for the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hemsky joins an Ottawa club that entered Wednesday four points out of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Ottawa Senators picked up forward Ales Hemsky from the Edmonton Oilers before Wednesday&#8217;s trade deadline, acquiring the veteran winger for a pair of draft picks. Hemsky, 30, heads to Ottawa for a fifth-round pick in 2014 and a third-rounder in 2015. The Czech Republic native has nine goals and 17 [&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-15440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440","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=15440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15450,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions\/15450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}