{"id":15931,"date":"2014-12-17T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/thunderbirds-barzal-gropp-to-play-in-chl-top-prospects-game\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T22:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T05:05:35","slug":"thunderbirds-barzal-gropp-to-play-in-chl-top-prospects-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/thunderbirds-barzal-gropp-to-play-in-chl-top-prospects-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds&#8217; Barzal, Gropp to play in CHL Top Prospects Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Canadian Hockey League has selected Seattle Thunderbirds center Mathew Barzal and left wing Ryan Gropp to play in the 2015 BMO CHL\/NHL Top Prospects Game at St. Catharines, Ontario, on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The 40 CHL players competing in the game were chosen by the 30 NHL clubs and divided into teams by NHL Central Scouting. The 20th showcase of the CHL&#8217;s top-40 NHL Draft eligible players features talent from the Western Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League competing before hundreds of NHL scouts in attendance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Gropp, from Kamloops, B.C., leads the T-Birds in scoring with 29 points on 14 goals and 15 assists in 33 games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Barzal, recovering from a fractured kneecap, has appeared in 16 games this season and had seven goals and 11 assists for 18 points.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Hockey League has selected Seattle Thunderbirds center Mathew Barzal and left wing Ryan Gropp to play in the 2015 BMO CHL\/NHL Top Prospects Game at St. Catharines, Ontario, on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15931"}],"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=15931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15931"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}