{"id":7253,"date":"2013-11-02T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-place-kaleta-on-waivers\/"},"modified":"2013-11-02T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T12:51:00","slug":"sabres-place-kaleta-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sabres-place-kaleta-on-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres place Kaleta on waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres have placed forward Patrick Kaleta on waivers.<\/p>\n<p>Kaleta is coming off a 10-game suspension for his hit on Columbus defenseman Jack Johnson on Oct. 10. He played in five games before the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a move we thought was necessary to help Pat change his game and preserve his career in this league,&#8221; Sabres general manager Darcy Regier said. &#8220;We believe in Pat as a person and we hope he will continue his career in our organization and, if the circumstances are right, with the Buffalo Sabres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Kaleta has 27 goals and 24 assists to go along with 506 penalty minutes in 306 career contests with the Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>Kaleta, who is no stranger to suspensions, will be eligible to report to the Sabres&#8217; AHL affiliate in Rochester if no NHL team claims him on waivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres have placed forward Patrick Kaleta on waivers. Kaleta is coming off a 10-game suspension for his hit on Columbus defenseman Jack Johnson on Oct. 10. He played in five games before the suspension. &#8220;This was a move we thought was necessary to help Pat change his game 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-7253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253","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=7253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}