{"id":17618,"date":"2014-04-19T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/flyers-g-emery-to-start-game-2\/"},"modified":"2014-04-19T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T14:22:00","slug":"flyers-g-emery-to-start-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/flyers-g-emery-to-start-game-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers G Emery to start Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Flyers announced Saturday that goaltender Ray Emery will start Game 2 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the New York Rangers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>With starting netminder Steve Mason recovering from an upper-body injury, Emery got the nod in Game 1 and turned away 22-of-23 shots in the first two periods, but gave up three goals on 13 shots in the third as the Rangers claimed a 4-1 victory to draw first blood in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Mason was hurt in Philadelphia&#8217;s penultimate regular-season game when Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jayson Megna pushed Philadelphia defenseman Andrew MacDonald into the netminder in the crease.<\/p>\n<p>After missing Thursday&#8217;s game, Mason practiced on Friday and Saturday in New York, but was deemed unavailable for Sunday&#8217;s Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>As in Game 1, Cal Heeter, who has just one game of NHL experience, will back up Emery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Flyers announced Saturday that goaltender Ray Emery will start Game 2 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the New York Rangers on Sunday. With starting netminder Steve Mason recovering from an upper-body injury, Emery got the nod in Game 1 and turned away 22-of-23 shots in 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-17618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618","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=17618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}