{"id":27473,"date":"2014-12-19T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/islanders-activate-boychuk-hamonic-from-ir\/"},"modified":"2014-12-19T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T18:45:00","slug":"islanders-activate-boychuk-hamonic-from-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/islanders-activate-boychuk-hamonic-from-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders activate Boychuk, Hamonic from IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uniondale, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Islanders have activated defensemen Johnny Boychuk and Travis Hamonic from injured reserve ahead of Friday night&#8217;s road contest against the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are good in all areas [including the] penalty kill and they can bring heavy shots in the offense zone as well,&#8221; noted Islanders captain John Tavares of his returning teammates. &#8220;They are very mobile guys that play a physical game. Those aren&#8217;t easy defensemen to play against or to find. They are a big part of our team, so it&#8217;s nice to have him back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boychuk, acquired from Boston in early October, picked up two goals and 12 assists in 21 games this season before an undisclosed upper-body injury kept him out of action for the last nine contests.<\/p>\n<p>Hamonic, who has collected three goals and three assists in 21 appearances, last suited up on Dec. 2. He was also felled by an upper-body issue.<\/p>\n<p>Both players are the club&#8217;s lone right-handed shooting blueliners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniondale, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Islanders have activated defensemen Johnny Boychuk and Travis Hamonic from injured reserve ahead of Friday night&#8217;s road contest against the Detroit Red Wings. &#8220;They are good in all areas [including the] penalty kill and they can bring heavy shots in the offense zone as well,&#8221; noted Islanders captain [&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-27473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27473","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=27473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}