{"id":1895,"date":"2013-07-02T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/caps-place-schultz-on-waivers\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T15:07:00","slug":"caps-place-schultz-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/caps-place-schultz-on-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Caps place Schultz on waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Capitals have placed defenseman Jeff Schultz on waivers, in anticipation of using a compliance buyout to free them of his contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reported the move on Tuesday, adding that a buyout can happen if he clears waivers by noon on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Schultz is heading into the final season of a four-year deal, but did little to endear him to management in 2013 after totaling three assists in 26 regular-season games which caused him to be a scratch during the playoffs. Schultz requested a trade after the Capitals were eliminated from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has totaled 11 goals and 64 assists in 399 appearances with the Capitals, who selected the Alberta native 27th overall in the 2004 draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Capitals have placed defenseman Jeff Schultz on waivers, in anticipation of using a compliance buyout to free them of his contract. The Associated Press reported the move on Tuesday, adding that a buyout can happen if he clears waivers by noon on Wednesday. Schultz is heading into 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-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","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=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}