{"id":1733,"date":"2013-06-24T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wild-backstrom-agree-to-3-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:05:00","slug":"wild-backstrom-agree-to-3-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wild-backstrom-agree-to-3-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild, Backstrom agree to 3-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul, MN (Sports Network) &#8211; The Minnesota Wild retained their starting goaltender, agreeing to terms on a three-year contract with Niklas Backstrom on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Backstrom, who was set to become an unrestricted free agent in July, went 24-15-3 with a 2.48 goals-against average, .909 save percentage and two shutouts over 42 appearances for the Wild this past season. The 35-year-old also managed to set a franchise mark with his eight-game win streak from March 14-30<\/p>\n<p>However, an undisclosed injury suffered during warmups prior to Game 1 of the first round against the Blackhawks kept him from the ice during the postseason. Backstrom then underwent successful surgery to repair a sports hernia in mid-May.<\/p>\n<p>A 2009 Vezina Trophy finalist and all-time club leader in victories, Backstrom has racked up a record of 184-124-45 with a 2.43 GAA, .917 save percentage and 28 shutouts in 369 games for Minnesota since 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul, MN (Sports Network) &#8211; The Minnesota Wild retained their starting goaltender, agreeing to terms on a three-year contract with Niklas Backstrom on Monday. Backstrom, who was set to become an unrestricted free agent in July, went 24-15-3 with a 2.48 goals-against average, .909 save percentage and two shutouts over 42 appearances for the [&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-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","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=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}