{"id":13718,"date":"2015-03-05T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/t-birds-hickman-signs-with-nhls-bruins\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T17:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T00:35:38","slug":"t-birds-hickman-signs-with-nhls-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/t-birds-hickman-signs-with-nhls-bruins\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Birds&#8217; Hickman signs with NHL&#8217;s Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Seattle right wing Justin Hickman signed a three-year entry level contract with the Boston Bruins today,\u00a0Thunderbirds general manager Russ Farwell announced.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;It is great to see Justin get his chance to move on to professional hockey,&#8221; Farwell said. &#8220;He was a great guy for us and showed improvement every year and I look forward to watching him develop as a pro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Hickman&#8217;s WHL career came to an in January when it was determined he needed season-ending shoulder surgery. This season Hickman had 28 points on nine goals and 19 assists with 40 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In five seasons with the T-Birds, Hickman played 285 games and had 55 goals and 77 assists for 132 points with 466 penalty minutes. Hickman finishes his T-Bird career in 11th place on the T-Birds all time games played list.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle right wing Justin Hickman signed a three-year entry level contract with the Boston Bruins today, Thunderbirds general manager Russ Farwell announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":13719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13718"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}