{"id":25182,"date":"2014-10-31T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-send-reinhart-back-to-junior\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:30:00","slug":"sabres-send-reinhart-back-to-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-send-reinhart-back-to-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres send Reinhart back to junior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres have returned forward Sam Reinhart, the second overall pick of this year&#8217;s NHL Entry Draft, to his junior team at Friday&#8217;s deadline to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The current Collective Bargaining Agreement allows NHL teams nine games to evaluate players still eligible to play in the junior leagues without it counting as a year accrued on their entry-level contracts. Reinhart appeared in his ninth game in the Sabres&#8217; overtime loss to Boston on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo&#8217;s decision to send Reinhart back to Kootenay of the Western Hockey League was not unexpected, as the 18-year-old had averaged just 10:21 of ice time while managing only one assist over his trial period.<\/p>\n<p>Reinhart became the Sabres&#8217; highest draft choice since Pierre Turgeon was selected first overall in 1987 following an outstanding season at Kootenay. The Vancouver-area native racked up 36 goals and 69 assists in 60 games for the Ice to earn 2013-14 WHL Player of the Year honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres have returned forward Sam Reinhart, the second overall pick of this year&#8217;s NHL Entry Draft, to his junior team at Friday&#8217;s deadline to do so. The current Collective Bargaining Agreement allows NHL teams nine games to evaluate players still eligible to play in the junior leagues without it [&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-25182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182","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=25182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}