{"id":4618,"date":"2013-09-04T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blackhawks-give-hjalmarsson-extension\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T01:10:09","slug":"blackhawks-give-hjalmarsson-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blackhawks-give-hjalmarsson-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks give Hjalmarsson extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to terms with defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson on a five-year extension through the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal, which starts with the 2014-15 season, were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Hjalmarsson has been part of the last two championship teams in Chicago, winning the Cup in 2010 and again this past spring. He had five assists and a plus-10 rating in 23 playoff games this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old native of Sweden notched two goals with eight assists for 10 points in playing all 48 games during the shortened 2013 regular season. He also posted a career-best plus-15 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Hjalmarsson was selected by the Blackhawks in the fourth round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft and has a plus-48 rating with nine goals and 47 assists in 306 career regular season games.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second long-term extension the Blackhawks have given this week, as goaltender Corey Crawford agreed to a six-year deal on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to terms with defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson on a five-year extension through the 2018-19 season. Financial terms of the deal, which starts with the 2014-15 season, were not disclosed. Hjalmarsson has been part of the last two championship teams in Chicago, winning the [&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-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","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=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}