{"id":21516,"date":"2014-07-31T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/spaling-penguins-agree-to-2-year-contract\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:08:00","slug":"spaling-penguins-agree-to-2-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/spaling-penguins-agree-to-2-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaling, Penguins agree to 2-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins have avoided arbitration with Nick Spaling, agreeing to terms Thursday with the restricted free agent forward on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The deal has an average annual value of $2.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Spaling was acquired by the Penguins from the Nashville Predators along with Patric Hornqvist on June 28 in exchange for James Neal.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Spaling played in 71 games last season and set career highs in goals (13), assists (19) and points (32).<\/p>\n<p>A 2007 second-round pick of the Predators, Spaling has 40 goals and 84 points in 297 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins have avoided arbitration with Nick Spaling, agreeing to terms Thursday with the restricted free agent forward on a two-year contract. The deal has an average annual value of $2.2 million. Spaling was acquired by the Penguins from the Nashville Predators along with Patric Hornqvist on June 28 in [&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-21516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516","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=21516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}