{"id":20020,"date":"2014-06-25T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/gaborik-inks-7-year-deal-to-stay-in-la\/"},"modified":"2014-06-25T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:38:00","slug":"gaborik-inks-7-year-deal-to-stay-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/gaborik-inks-7-year-deal-to-stay-in-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaborik inks 7-year deal to stay in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Los Angeles Kings signed pending unrestricted free agent forward Marian Gaborik to a seven-year contract on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal reportedly has an average annual value of $4.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>A late-season acquisition from Columbus, Gaborik became a playoff hero, scoring a league-best 14 postseason goals and helping the Kings capture their second Stanley Cup title in three years.<\/p>\n<p>Gaborik, 32, finished one goal shy of matching the Kings&#8217; franchise record set by Wayne Gretzky in 1993. He had just five goals in 19 games following the March 5 trade.<\/p>\n<p>The native Slovakian was selected third overall by the Minnesota Wild in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft and he played eight seasons with the Wild before signing as a free agent with the New York Rangers in July 2009. The Rangers dealt him to the Blue Jackets at the 2013 trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Gaborik has registered 347 goals and 357 assists in 810 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Los Angeles Kings signed pending unrestricted free agent forward Marian Gaborik to a seven-year contract on Wednesday. The deal reportedly has an average annual value of $4.9 million. A late-season acquisition from Columbus, Gaborik became a playoff hero, scoring a league-best 14 postseason goals and helping the Kings capture [&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-20020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020","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=20020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}