{"id":2442,"date":"2013-07-15T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/panthers-sign-2nd-overall-pick-barkov\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T21:39:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:39:01","slug":"panthers-sign-2nd-overall-pick-barkov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/panthers-sign-2nd-overall-pick-barkov\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers sign 2nd overall pick Barkov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Florida Panthers announced on Monday that they have signed center Aleksander Barkov, the second overall pick in the 2013 draft, to an entry-level contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old Finnish center currently plays for Tappara Tempre of SM-liiga. In 53 games with Tappara last season, he scored 21 goals and added 27 assists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to have signed Aleksander,&#8221; said Florida general manager Dale Tallon. &#8220;He is a mature, strong and skilled forward who plays well at both ends of the ice and strengthens our line-up down the middle. Aleksander is a creative and dynamic player who our fans will enjoy watching. We look forward to his contributions to our organization both on and off the ice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barkov also represented Finland at the World Junior Championships the past two years. He notched three goals with four assists in six games at the last tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Florida Panthers announced on Monday that they have signed center Aleksander Barkov, the second overall pick in the 2013 draft, to an entry-level contract. The 17-year-old Finnish center currently plays for Tappara Tempre of SM-liiga. In 53 games with Tappara last season, he scored 21 goals and added 27 [&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-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}