{"id":20450,"date":"2014-07-04T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canucks-retain-f-kassian\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:52:00","slug":"canucks-retain-f-kassian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canucks-retain-f-kassian\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks retain F Kassian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Vancouver Canucks re-signed forward Zack Kassian on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Sun reported Kassian, a restricted free agent, and the club agreed to a two-year, $3.5 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Kassian, 23, had 14 goals and 15 assists in 73 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zack is a skilled, young player and an important member of this team,&#8221; said Canucks general manager Jim Benning. &#8220;He has the ability to impact a game both with his talent and size. We look forward to seeing him continue to develop as a Canuck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks acquired the 6-foot-3 Kassian in a trade with Buffalo on Feb. 27, 2012. The Sabres selected him 13th overall in the 2009 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Kassian has 25 goals, 50 points and 226 penalty minutes in 156 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks also re-signed defenseman Yannick Weber. The 25-year-old Weber played in 49 games with the Canucks last season, collecting six goals and four assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Vancouver Canucks re-signed forward Zack Kassian on Friday. The Vancouver Sun reported Kassian, a restricted free agent, and the club agreed to a two-year, $3.5 million contract. Kassian, 23, had 14 goals and 15 assists in 73 games last season. &#8220;Zack is a skilled, young player and an important member [&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-20450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450","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=20450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}