{"id":20289,"date":"2014-07-01T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sens-lock-up-michalek-for-3-years\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:20:16","slug":"sens-lock-up-michalek-for-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sens-lock-up-michalek-for-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens lock up Michalek for 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Shortly after dealing Jason Spezza to the Dallas Stars, the Ottawa Senators locked up unrestricted free agent forward Milan Michalek with a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>This new pact, announced Tuesday afternoon, will pay Michalek $12 million for the duration, with an average annual value of $4 million per season.<\/p>\n<p>Michalek participated in all 82 games for the first time in his career last season, totaling 17 goals and 22 assists but finished a career-worst minus-25.<\/p>\n<p>The former sixth-overall selection of San Jose in the 2003 draft, Michalek has racked up 187 goals and 394 points over 10 NHL seasons for the Sharks and Senators.<\/p>\n<p>With Ottawa, the 29-year-old native of the Czech Republic has accumulated 96 tallies and 180 points over 314 contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Shortly after dealing Jason Spezza to the Dallas Stars, the Ottawa Senators locked up unrestricted free agent forward Milan Michalek with a three-year contract. This new pact, announced Tuesday afternoon, will pay Michalek $12 million for the duration, with an average annual value of $4 million per season. Michalek participated in [&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-20289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289","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=20289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20293,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289\/revisions\/20293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}