{"id":28607,"date":"2015-01-18T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-d-staal-agree-to-extension\/"},"modified":"2015-01-18T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T22:11:04","slug":"rangers-d-staal-agree-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-d-staal-agree-to-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers, D Staal agree to extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Rangers and defenseman Marc Staal agreed to terms on a contract extension on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers tweeted that the two sides agreed to a deal, and that Staal will sign the contract later on Sunday. Terms were not disclosed, but it has been reported as a six-year extension with an average value of $5.7 million a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the place I want to be,&#8221; said Staal. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had great time growing up in this organization and have a lot of respect for what they do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old, who was New York&#8217;s first-round pick (12th overall) in the 2005 draft, has two goals and six assists in 42 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>One of four brothers in the NHL, Staal has 29 goals and 90 assists in 503 games over eight seasons in the NHL, all with the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>His three brothers, Eric, Jared and Jordan, all play with Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Rangers and defenseman Marc Staal agreed to terms on a contract extension on Sunday. The Rangers tweeted that the two sides agreed to a deal, and that Staal will sign the contract later on Sunday. Terms were not disclosed, but it has been reported as a six-year [&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-28607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607","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=28607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28609,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions\/28609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}