{"id":1864,"date":"2013-07-01T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jackets-agree-to-deal-with-bobrovsky-2\/"},"modified":"2013-07-01T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:48:00","slug":"blue-jackets-agree-to-deal-with-bobrovsky-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jackets-agree-to-deal-with-bobrovsky-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets agree to deal with Bobrovsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Columbus Blue Jackets have re-signed goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, the reigning Vezina Trophy winner, to a two-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Bobrovsky, who was set to become a restricted free agent if not signed by July 5, became the first Russian-born goaltender in NHL history to be recognized with the prestigious award after going 21-11-6 with a 2.00 goals-against average and four shutouts in 38 games.<\/p>\n<p>His efforts were instrumental to Columbus&#8217; late-season push for a second playoff berth in franchise history &#8212; one which ultimately fell short.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to be a Columbus Blue Jacket,&#8221; said Bobrovsky. &#8220;My wife and I really like Columbus and the fans have been very nice to us and supportive of our team. I&#8217;m looking forward to the season and working with my teammates to help us to our goal of winning a Stanley Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a three-year NHL career with the Flyers and Blue Jackets, the 24-year- old has gone 63-34-16 with a 2.49 GAA and .917 save percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Columbus Blue Jackets have re-signed goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, the reigning Vezina Trophy winner, to a two-year contract extension. Bobrovsky, who was set to become a restricted free agent if not signed by July 5, became the first Russian-born goaltender in NHL history to be recognized with the prestigious award [&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-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}