{"id":5703,"date":"2013-09-30T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/panthers-add-depth-at-defense-with-whitney-signing\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:32:00","slug":"panthers-add-depth-at-defense-with-whitney-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/panthers-add-depth-at-defense-with-whitney-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers add depth at defense with Whitney signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Florida Panthers bolstered their defense ahead of the regular season, agreeing to terms with Ryan Whitney on a one-year contract Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney was released from his tryout with the St. Louis Blues last week.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Boston native has totaled 50 goals and 209 assists in 474 career games with Pittsburgh, Anaheim and Edmonton. He spent the past three- plus seasons with the Oilers and posted 13 points, including four goals, in 34 games during the shortened 2013 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney was selected fifth overall by the Penguins in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers open their season on Thursday in Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Florida Panthers bolstered their defense ahead of the regular season, agreeing to terms with Ryan Whitney on a one-year contract Monday. Whitney was released from his tryout with the St. Louis Blues last week. The 30-year-old Boston native has totaled 50 goals and 209 assists in 474 career games [&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-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","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=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}