{"id":20400,"date":"2014-07-02T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/predators-add-jokinen\/"},"modified":"2014-07-02T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T19:50:00","slug":"predators-add-jokinen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/predators-add-jokinen\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators add Jokinen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Nashville Predators took their first jump into the free-agent pool during Wednesday&#8217;s second day of the signing period, inking veteran center Olli Jokinen to a one-year, $2.5 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year veteran who has totaled 317 career goals, Jokinen scored 18 times and added 25 assists while playing in all 82 games for the Winnipeg Jets last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old has scored 34 goals or more four times during his career, all coming over a five-season stretch with the Florida Panthers from 2002-08.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Olli Jokinen is a proven veteran center who will provide us with size, leadership and offensive ability in the tough Central Division and Western Conference,&#8221; said Predators general manager David Poile. &#8220;He provides our coaching staff with more depth and options at the forward position and coach [Peter] Laviolette believes he is a good fit for our style of play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jokinen also has amassed 740 points and 1,043 penalty minutes over 1,169 games with seven different teams (Los Angeles, New York Islanders, Florida, Phoenix, Calgary, New York Rangers, Winnipeg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Nashville Predators took their first jump into the free-agent pool during Wednesday&#8217;s second day of the signing period, inking veteran center Olli Jokinen to a one-year, $2.5 million contract. A 16-year veteran who has totaled 317 career goals, Jokinen scored 18 times and added 25 assists while playing in all [&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-20400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400","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=20400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}