{"id":2381,"date":"2013-07-12T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-ink-first-round-pick-ristolainen\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T23:34:00","slug":"sabres-ink-first-round-pick-ristolainen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-ink-first-round-pick-ristolainen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres ink first-round pick Ristolainen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres signed their first-round draft pick Friday, defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen, to a three-year, entry-level contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old was taken with the eighth overall selection this year. He&#8217;s the Sabres&#8217; highest first-round selection since the team selected forward Thomas Vanek fifth overall in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2012-13 season, he played for TPS in his native Finland and had three goals and 12 assists in 52 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We felt that it was important to get Rasmus under contract quickly so that we could start the development process right away,&#8221; Sabres general manager Darcy Regier said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a very mature defenseman for his age and will have every chance to compete for a roster spot in training camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres signed their first-round draft pick Friday, defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen, to a three-year, entry-level contract. The 19-year-old was taken with the eighth overall selection this year. He&#8217;s the Sabres&#8217; highest first-round selection since the team selected forward Thomas Vanek fifth overall in 2003. During the 2012-13 season, he [&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-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","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=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}