{"id":20005,"date":"2014-06-25T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/oilers-acquire-nikitin-from-blue-jackets\/"},"modified":"2014-06-25T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T10:23:00","slug":"oilers-acquire-nikitin-from-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/oilers-acquire-nikitin-from-blue-jackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers acquire Nikitin from Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton, AB (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Edmonton Oilers acquired the rights to defenseman Nikita Nikitin from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Nikitin, 28, spent the last two-plus seasons with the Blue Jackets, posting 12 goals and 44 assists in 158 games.<\/p>\n<p>Over his five-year career, which also included two years with the St. Louis Blues, Nikitin has 13 goals and 52 assists in 206 games.<\/p>\n<p>His best point production came in the 2011-12 season, when he posted seven goals and 25 assists for 32 points in 54 games with Columbus after being acquired in a trade from St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton, AB (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Edmonton Oilers acquired the rights to defenseman Nikita Nikitin from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick in 2014. Nikitin, 28, spent the last two-plus seasons with the Blue Jackets, posting 12 goals and 44 assists in 158 games. Over his five-year career, which also included [&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-20005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005","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=20005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}