{"id":2029,"date":"2013-07-05T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lightning-sign-filppula-for-five-years\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T17:52:00","slug":"lightning-sign-filppula-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lightning-sign-filppula-for-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning sign Filppula for five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning attempted to fill the void left by Vincent Lecavalier on Friday, signing unrestricted free agent center Valtteri Filppula to a five-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>After Lecavalier left Tampa earlier this week to sign a five-year, $22.5 million deal with Philadelphia, the Lightning landed Filppula for a deal reportedly worth $25 million.<\/p>\n<p>Filppula, 29, expects to fill the second-line center spot vacated by the 33- year-old Lecavalier&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He fills a much-needed position for us at center, and his skill, work ethic and character will make him a great addition to our team,&#8221; said Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish centerman was a third-round draft pick by Detroit and recorded 100 goals and 251 points over 483 career games with the Red Wings. He had a career-best campaign with 23 goals and 66 points in 2011-12 and posted nine goals and eight assists in 41 games with Detroit last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning attempted to fill the void left by Vincent Lecavalier on Friday, signing unrestricted free agent center Valtteri Filppula to a five-year contract. After Lecavalier left Tampa earlier this week to sign a five-year, $22.5 million deal with Philadelphia, the Lightning landed Filppula for a deal reportedly [&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-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}