{"id":19092,"date":"2014-05-23T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lightning-re-up-johnson-for-3-years\/"},"modified":"2014-05-23T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:54:00","slug":"lightning-re-up-johnson-for-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lightning-re-up-johnson-for-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning re-up Johnson for 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning re-signed forward Tyler Johnson to a three-year contract on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who was set to be a restricted free agent in July, completed his first full NHL campaign with 24 goals and 50 points while participating in all 82 regular-season games for the Bolts. He added a goal and one assist in four playoff appearances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s had an outstanding first year in the league, We&#8217;re happy to get him under contract,&#8221; stated Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old native of Spokane, Washington, who is one of three finalists for the Calder Trophy as the league&#8217;s top rookie, was named the most valuable player in the American Hockey League last season after totaling 65 points in 62 games for the Syracuse Crunch.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, Johnson recorded 128 goals and 282 points over 266 games for his hometown Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League in Canadian juniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning re-signed forward Tyler Johnson to a three-year contract on Friday. Johnson, who was set to be a restricted free agent in July, completed his first full NHL campaign with 24 goals and 50 points while participating in all 82 regular-season games for the Bolts. He added a [&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-19092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19092","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=19092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}