{"id":2251,"date":"2013-07-10T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/caps-keep-alzner-with-4-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:54:00","slug":"caps-keep-alzner-with-4-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/caps-keep-alzner-with-4-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Caps keep Alzner with 4-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, VA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Capitals retained the services of restricted free-agent defenseman Karl Alzner on Wednesday, thanks to a four-year contract extension worth $11.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very pleased to sign Karl Alzner to a contract extension,&#8221; said Caps general manager George McPhee. &#8220;Karl is just entering his prime and has been a model of consistency for our organization since he entered the League. He plays tough and valuable minutes against some of the NHL&#8217;s top players every game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A stay-at-home defender, Alzner played in all 48 regular-season games during the lockout-shortened season, totaling one goal and four assists. He added two points in a seven-game, first-round loss to the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>The former fifth-overall pick in the 2007 draft by Washington, Alzner has spent his entire five-year career in America&#8217;s capital, recording 39 assists and 44 points over 263 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Alzner was also a two-time gold medalist for his native Canada at the World Junior Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, VA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Capitals retained the services of restricted free-agent defenseman Karl Alzner on Wednesday, thanks to a four-year contract extension worth $11.2 million. &#8220;We are very pleased to sign Karl Alzner to a contract extension,&#8221; said Caps general manager George McPhee. &#8220;Karl is just entering his prime and has been [&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-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}