{"id":1988,"date":"2013-07-05T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sharks-extend-couture-ink-kennedy\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T13:46:00","slug":"sharks-extend-couture-ink-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sharks-extend-couture-ink-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks extend Couture, ink Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Jose Sharks weren&#8217;t among the initial teams to dive into the free agent pool.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they opted to re-sign budding star Logan Couture to a five-year contract extension and ink recent acquisition Tyler Kennedy to a two-year deal on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Couture, a center, led the team with 21 goals and ranked second with 37 points while playing all 48 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Couture, selected ninth overall in the 2007 draft by San Jose, has compiled 89 goals, 78 assists and a plus-31 rating in 232 career games with the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, 26, came over in last week&#8217;s trade with Pittsburgh for a 2013 second- round pick. He posted six goals and five assists in 46 games for the Penguins this past season.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Penguins&#8217; Stanley Cup-winning club in 2009, the forward has tallied 76 goals and 92 assists in 372 career games, all with Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Jose Sharks weren&#8217;t among the initial teams to dive into the free agent pool. Instead, they opted to re-sign budding star Logan Couture to a five-year contract extension and ink recent acquisition Tyler Kennedy to a two-year deal on Friday. Couture, a center, led the team with [&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-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}