{"id":2252,"date":"2013-07-10T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/flames-re-sign-backlund\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:13:00","slug":"flames-re-sign-backlund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/flames-re-sign-backlund\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames re-sign Backlund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary, AB (Sports Network) &#8211; The Calgary Flames re-signed restricted free-agent forward Mikael Backlund on Wednesday to a $3 million, two-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mikael really stepped up last season and took advantage of the change in direction under a new coaching staff,&#8221; said Flames general manager Jay Feaster. &#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for his injury we believe he would have progressed even further in his development. We need Mikael to be one of our go-to players this year, and we are excited about watching him continue to evolve and take that step to the next level as a player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Backlund was hampered by a Grade 2 sprain of the medial collateral ligament in one of his knees, missing a little more than a month of action early last season. He finished with eight goals and eight assists in 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>Over parts of five NHL seasons, all for Calgary, the 24-year-old Swede has totaled 23 goals and 39 assists in 170 appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary, AB (Sports Network) &#8211; The Calgary Flames re-signed restricted free-agent forward Mikael Backlund on Wednesday to a $3 million, two-year contract extension. &#8220;Mikael really stepped up last season and took advantage of the change in direction under a new coaching staff,&#8221; said Flames general manager Jay Feaster. &#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for his injury we [&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-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","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=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}