{"id":6815,"date":"2013-10-24T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/penguins-to-keep-maatta-in-nhl\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T12:09:00","slug":"penguins-to-keep-maatta-in-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/penguins-to-keep-maatta-in-nhl\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins to keep Maatta in NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins announced on Thursday their intention to keep rookie defenseman Olli Maatta with the club for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on his play, we believe this is the best decision for Olli and the Penguins,&#8221; Pittsburgh general manager Ray Shero said. &#8220;We want to thank Mark and Dale Hunter and the London Knights for their patience and understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maatta, the Pens&#8217; first-round pick (22nd overall) in the 2012 draft, has totaled one goal and two assists in nine games thus far.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old posted eight goals and 38 points in 57 games last year for the Knights, who won the Ontario Hockey League title and gained a berth in the Memorial Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins announced on Thursday their intention to keep rookie defenseman Olli Maatta with the club for the remainder of the season. &#8220;Based on his play, we believe this is the best decision for Olli and the Penguins,&#8221; Pittsburgh general manager Ray Shero said. &#8220;We want to thank Mark and [&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-6815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","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=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}