{"id":21638,"date":"2014-08-02T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bolts-ink-bishop-to-2-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-08-02T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T17:10:00","slug":"bolts-ink-bishop-to-2-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bolts-ink-bishop-to-2-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolts ink Bishop to 2-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning announced the signing of goaltender Ben Bishop to a two-year contract extension on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop saw his 2013-14 season cut short due to a torn ligament in his right wrist which eventually required surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the 27-year-old native of Denver managed to set team single- season records for wins (37), goals-against average (2.23) and save percentage (.924) while helping the Lightning finish second in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n<p>With Bishop on the sidelines, Tampa Bay was swept in four games by the Montreal Canadiens in the opening round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>A Vezina Trophy finalist for his efforts, Bishop holds a 55-31-11 record, 2.40 GAA and eight shutouts over 108 appearances for the Blues, Senators and Bolts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning announced the signing of goaltender Ben Bishop to a two-year contract extension on Saturday. Bishop saw his 2013-14 season cut short due to a torn ligament in his right wrist which eventually required surgery. Nonetheless, the 27-year-old native of Denver managed to set team single- season records [&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-21638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21638","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=21638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}