{"id":20572,"date":"2014-07-07T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/predators-ink-d-volchenkov\/"},"modified":"2014-07-07T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:09:00","slug":"predators-ink-d-volchenkov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/predators-ink-d-volchenkov\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators ink D Volchenkov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Nashville Predators signed defenseman Anton Volchenkov to a one-year, $1 million contract on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Volchenkov, 32, became a free agent after the New Jersey Devils decided to buy out the final two years and $8.5 million on the six-year, $25.5 million contract he signed on July 1, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian had eight assists in 56 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anton provides a strong veteran presence that will complement our young, talented defensive corps nicely,&#8221; Predators general manager David Poile said. &#8220;He is a physical, left-handed shooting defenseman who can match up with top- line forwards and effectively kill penalties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 2000 first-round pick of Ottawa, Volchenkov has totaled 19 goals and 107 assists in 650 career games with the Senators and Devils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Nashville Predators signed defenseman Anton Volchenkov to a one-year, $1 million contract on Monday. Volchenkov, 32, became a free agent after the New Jersey Devils decided to buy out the final two years and $8.5 million on the six-year, $25.5 million contract he signed on July 1, 2010. The Russian [&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-20572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572","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=20572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}