{"id":5516,"date":"2013-09-25T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-sign-d-zadorov\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T17:21:00","slug":"sabres-sign-d-zadorov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-sign-d-zadorov\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres sign D Zadorov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres signed defenseman Nikita Zadorov to a three-year, entry-level contract on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Russian was taken with the second of Buffalo&#8217;s two first-round picks in the June draft at 16th overall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watching Nikita throughout training camp and the preseason has solidified our opinion that he will be a good, young hockey player for our organization going forward,&#8221; Sabres general manager Darcy Regier said in a statement. &#8220;He has exceptional presence on the ice and we look forward to seeing him continue to develop as a player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zadorov posted six goals and 19 assists in 63 games for London of the Ontario Hockey League last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres signed defenseman Nikita Zadorov to a three-year, entry-level contract on Wednesday. The 18-year-old Russian was taken with the second of Buffalo&#8217;s two first-round picks in the June draft at 16th overall. &#8220;Watching Nikita throughout training camp and the preseason has solidified our opinion that he will be [&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-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","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=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}