{"id":1951,"date":"2013-07-04T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canucks-buy-out-d-ballard\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T16:41:00","slug":"canucks-buy-out-d-ballard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canucks-buy-out-d-ballard\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks buy out D Ballard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Vancouver Canucks have bought out the remaining two years of defenseman Keith Ballard&#8217;s contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Ballard was due to count $4.2 million against the cap over the next two years. Under the buyout terms, the Canucks will pay Ballard $1.4 million a year until 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank Keith for his contributions while in Vancouver and wish him all the best moving forward,&#8221; the team wrote on its Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard had spent the past three seasons with the Canucks. During the shortened 2013 campaign, he posted just two assists in 36 games.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, the Minnesota native and 2002 first-round pick has totaled 36 goals and 129 assists in 545 games with Phoenix, Florida and Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Vancouver Canucks have bought out the remaining two years of defenseman Keith Ballard&#8217;s contract. The 30-year-old Ballard was due to count $4.2 million against the cap over the next two years. Under the buyout terms, the Canucks will pay Ballard $1.4 million a year until 2017. &#8220;We thank Keith [&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-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","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=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}