{"id":26124,"date":"2014-11-21T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stars-sign-spezza-to-four-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-11-21T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:20:13","slug":"stars-sign-spezza-to-four-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stars-sign-spezza-to-four-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars sign Spezza to four-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Stars signed center Jason Spezza to a four-year contract extension on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms were not released by the team, but TSN.ca reported the contract has an average annual value of $7.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Spezza was acquired from the Ottawa Senators in a trade on July 1 and has posted four goals and 14 assists in 20 games this season. He could have become an unrestricted free agent next summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jason is a world-class player and his commitment to the organization is a reflection of what we are building in Dallas,&#8221; Stars general manager Jim Nill said. &#8220;The professionalism and production he brings to our group is key for our success moving forward and we value the leadership he brings to our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected second overall by Ottawa in the 2001 draft, Spezza has compiled 255 goals and 450 assists for 705 points in 706 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Stars signed center Jason Spezza to a four-year contract extension on Friday. Financial terms were not released by the team, but TSN.ca reported the contract has an average annual value of $7.5 million. Spezza was acquired from the Ottawa Senators in a trade on July 1 and has posted [&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-26124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124","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=26124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26130,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124\/revisions\/26130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}