{"id":2071,"date":"2013-07-06T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stars-sign-nichushkin\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T18:09:00","slug":"stars-sign-nichushkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stars-sign-nichushkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars sign Nichushkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Dallas Stars signed forward Valeri Nichushkin to a three-year, entry-level contract on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Nichushkin was selected by Dallas in the first round (10th overall) of the 2013 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3, 196-pound native of Chelyabinsk, Russia appeared in 18 contests with Chelyabinsk of the KHL during the 2012-13 regular season, recording four goals and two assists. He also appeared in 25 postseason contests with the club, posting six goals and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Valeri is a skilled and competitive forward who we feel was at the top of the talent pool in this season&#8217;s NHL Draft,&#8221; Stars general manager Jim Nill said. &#8220;He spent the last season playing against men in a very strong league and we feel that he can come in and immediately compete for a job at the NHL level.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Dallas Stars signed forward Valeri Nichushkin to a three-year, entry-level contract on Saturday. Nichushkin was selected by Dallas in the first round (10th overall) of the 2013 NHL Draft. The 6-foot-3, 196-pound native of Chelyabinsk, Russia appeared in 18 contests with Chelyabinsk of the KHL during the 2012-13 regular [&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-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","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=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}