{"id":20254,"date":"2014-06-30T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lightning-g-lindback-to-be-free-agent\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T17:50:00","slug":"lightning-g-lindback-to-be-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lightning-g-lindback-to-be-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning G Lindback to be free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tampa Bay Lighting goaltender Anders Lindback was one of four players Monday who did not receive a qualifying offer from the team.<\/p>\n<p>Lindback, defensemen Keith Aulie and Charles Landry and forward Geoff Walker will all become unrestricted free agents on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lindback was thrust into a starting role for the Lightning at the end of the season after Vezina Trophy finalist Ben Bishop went down with a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year veteran gave up 14 goals on 118 shots as Tampa Bay was swept in the first round of the playoffs by Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning issued qualifying offers to forwards Brett Connolly, Cody Kunyk, Richard Panik and Philippe Paradis and defensemen Dmitry Korobov and Andrej Sustr at the NHL deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning will have the right of the first refusal on each player or will receive a draft pick as compensation should any of the players sign an offer sheet with another team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tampa Bay Lighting goaltender Anders Lindback was one of four players Monday who did not receive a qualifying offer from the team. Lindback, defensemen Keith Aulie and Charles Landry and forward Geoff Walker will all become unrestricted free agents on Tuesday. Lindback was thrust into a starting role for the Lightning [&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-20254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254","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=20254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}