{"id":2119,"date":"2013-07-08T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jets-burmistrov-leaves-for-russia\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T13:06:00","slug":"jets-burmistrov-leaves-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jets-burmistrov-leaves-for-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets&#8217; Burmistrov leaves for Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, MB (Sports Network) &#8211; The Winnipeg Jets on Monday announced center Alexander Burmistrov has decided to sign with Ak Bars Kazan of Russia&#8217;s Kontinental Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Burmistrov was selected with the eighth overall pick of the 2010 draft when the organization was based in Atlanta. He played three seasons for the Thrashers\/Jets franchise on an entry-level contract and notched 23 goals with 35 assists in 194 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through our conversations and correspondence with Alex and his agent, it became apparent Alex had a desire to continue his development as a young player in the KHL,&#8221; said Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff in a statement Monday. &#8220;He remains a very talented player within the Jets organization and we will continue to monitor his progress and development going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old native of Kazan, Russia managed just four goals and six assists for 10 points in 44 games during the lockout-shortened 2013 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, MB (Sports Network) &#8211; The Winnipeg Jets on Monday announced center Alexander Burmistrov has decided to sign with Ak Bars Kazan of Russia&#8217;s Kontinental Hockey League. Burmistrov was selected with the eighth overall pick of the 2010 draft when the organization was based in Atlanta. He played three seasons for the Thrashers\/Jets franchise on [&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-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","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=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}