{"id":20868,"date":"2014-07-14T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stars-sign-first-round-pick-honka\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:39:00","slug":"stars-sign-first-round-pick-honka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stars-sign-first-round-pick-honka\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars sign first-round pick Honka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Stars signed 2014 first-round draft pick Julius Honka to a three-year, entry-level contract on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars selected the 18-year-old defenseman 14th overall in last month&#8217;s NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are happy to have signed Julius quickly so that the young defenseman can continue the process of developing his game,&#8221; said Stars general manager Jim Nill. &#8220;He&#8217;s highly skilled, moves the puck extremely well and is very competent at running a power play. We are really excited about his potential and think he has the tools to grow into an NHL defenseman in the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Honka, a native of Finland, made a seamless transition to the North American game with Swift Current of the Western Hockey League last season, leading all blueliners on the team with 56 points (16 goals, 40 assists).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Stars signed 2014 first-round draft pick Julius Honka to a three-year, entry-level contract on Monday. The Stars selected the 18-year-old defenseman 14th overall in last month&#8217;s NHL Draft. &#8220;We are happy to have signed Julius quickly so that the young defenseman can continue the process of developing his game,&#8221; [&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-20868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20868","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=20868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}