{"id":4944,"date":"2013-09-11T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-sign-rfa-hodgson-to-multi-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:54:00","slug":"sabres-sign-rfa-hodgson-to-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-sign-rfa-hodgson-to-multi-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres sign RFA Hodgson to multi-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres and restricted free-agent forward Cody Hodgson agreed to a multi-year contract extension on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>No terms of the pact were disclosed, but Hodgson himself left a message on the Sabres&#8217; official Twitter account saying, &#8220;Hey Sabres fans, I&#8217;m excited to let you know that I&#8217;m going to be a Buffalo Sabre for the next six years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hodgson totaled 15 goals and 34 points over 48 games for Buffalo last season, his third NHL campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely excited to have signed Cody to a long-term deal,&#8221; Sabres general manager Darcy Regier said. &#8220;We feel he is going to be an important piece of our organization&#8217;s success in the future and look forward to watching him develop as a player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Originally a first-round draft pick of the Vancouver Canucks in 2008, the 23- year-old native of Toronto has compiled 35 goals and 77 points in 139 regular- season contests, adding one assist in 12 playoff appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres and restricted free-agent forward Cody Hodgson agreed to a multi-year contract extension on Wednesday. No terms of the pact were disclosed, but Hodgson himself left a message on the Sabres&#8217; official Twitter account saying, &#8220;Hey Sabres fans, I&#8217;m excited to let you know that I&#8217;m going to [&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-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","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=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}