{"id":2034,"date":"2013-07-05T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ducks-give-koivu-another-year\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T19:11:00","slug":"ducks-give-koivu-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ducks-give-koivu-another-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks give Koivu another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Anaheim Ducks signed veteran center Saku Koivu to a one-year contract extension on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Finn completed his fourth season with the Ducks and had eight goals and 19 assists in 47 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are happy to bring back a character player like Saku,&#8221; said Ducks general manager Bob Murray. &#8220;At this stage in his career, his first priority is to win, and we are happy he&#8217;s decided this is the place for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Ducks, Koivu spent the first 13 seasons of his career with the Montreal Canadiens, for whom he served as captain for 10 years, a mark matched only by Jean Beliveau in the franchise&#8217;s illustrious history.<\/p>\n<p>The 21st overall selection in the 1993 draft, Koivu has totaled 244 goals and 803 points in 1,059 NHL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Anaheim Ducks signed veteran center Saku Koivu to a one-year contract extension on Friday. The 38-year-old Finn completed his fourth season with the Ducks and had eight goals and 19 assists in 47 games. &#8220;We are happy to bring back a character player like Saku,&#8221; said Ducks general manager [&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-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}