{"id":2557,"date":"2013-07-18T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kings-name-blake-as-assistant-gm\/"},"modified":"2013-07-18T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T13:25:00","slug":"kings-name-blake-as-assistant-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kings-name-blake-as-assistant-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings name Blake as assistant GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Los Angeles Kings appointed former team captain and defenseman Rob Blake as their assistant general manager on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Blake, the Kings&#8217; all-time leader in games played, goals, assists and points by a defenseman, replaces Ron Hextall, who is now the assistant general manager and director of hockey operations for the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Kings in the fourth round of the 1988 NHL Entry Draft, Blake played 14 of his 20 NHL seasons with the Kings (1990-2001, 2006-08) and was team captain for six seasons (1996-2001, 2007-08).<\/p>\n<p>A six-time All-Star, he helped lead the Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals and won the franchise&#8217;s first Norris Trophy in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Blake also spent time as a member of the Avalanche (2001-06) and the Sharks (2008-10), winning a Stanley Cup with Colorado in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Los Angeles Kings appointed former team captain and defenseman Rob Blake as their assistant general manager on Thursday. Blake, the Kings&#8217; all-time leader in games played, goals, assists and points by a defenseman, replaces Ron Hextall, who is now the assistant general manager and director of hockey operations [&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-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","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=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}