{"id":24331,"date":"2014-10-09T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/penguins-return-first-round-pick-kapanen-to-finnish-team\/"},"modified":"2014-10-09T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:58:00","slug":"penguins-return-first-round-pick-kapanen-to-finnish-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/penguins-return-first-round-pick-kapanen-to-finnish-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins return first-round pick Kapanen to Finnish team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins sent first- round draft pick Kasperi Kapanen back to his Finnish team prior to the team&#8217;s season opener against Anaheim on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kapanen, who was selected 22nd overall in June, will return to KalPa of Finland&#8217;s premier professional league, Liiga.<\/p>\n<p>Son of former NHL forward Sami Kapanen, who also plays for KalPa, the 18-year- old was ranked 39th on NHL.com&#8217;s top 60 prospects list.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh also placed forward Beau Bennett on injured reserve. The 22-year- old is out with a lower-body injury that he sustained during practice on Sept. 27. He is expected to miss up to six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins recalled forwards Zach Sill and Andrew Ebbett and defenseman Taylor Chorney from Wheeling, the team&#8217;s ECHL affiliate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins sent first- round draft pick Kasperi Kapanen back to his Finnish team prior to the team&#8217;s season opener against Anaheim on Thursday. Kapanen, who was selected 22nd overall in June, will return to KalPa of Finland&#8217;s premier professional league, Liiga. Son of former NHL forward Sami Kapanen, who [&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-24331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24331","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=24331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}