{"id":24103,"date":"2014-09-30T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sale-of-islanders-approved-by-nhl-board-of-governors\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:42:00","slug":"sale-of-islanders-approved-by-nhl-board-of-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sale-of-islanders-approved-by-nhl-board-of-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale of Islanders approved by NHL Board of Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Jonathan Ledecky and Scott Malkin are one step closer to a controlling interest in the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman revealed that the league&#8217;s Board of Governors approved the move to transfer a majority interest from current owner Charles Wang to the duo within two years.<\/p>\n<p>Bettman added that the official agreement between Wang, Ledecky, Malkin and the NHL is expected to be closed before the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not going to happen tomorrow because there is some work to do, but I think they&#8217;re probably shooting to get it done before the start of the season next week,&#8221; Bettman said. &#8220;If they miss it, that doesn&#8217;t mean anything bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders are heading into their final season calling the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum home. Next year, the four-time Stanley Cup champions will take up residence in Brooklyn&#8217;s Barclays Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Jonathan Ledecky and Scott Malkin are one step closer to a controlling interest in the New York Islanders. On Tuesday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman revealed that the league&#8217;s Board of Governors approved the move to transfer a majority interest from current owner Charles Wang to the duo within two years. [&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-24103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24103","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=24103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}