{"id":19931,"date":"2014-04-10T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T21:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/t-birds-theodore-joins-ducks-top-affiliate\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T03:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:35:25","slug":"t-birds-theodore-joins-ducks-top-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/t-birds-theodore-joins-ducks-top-affiliate\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Birds&#8217; Theodore joins Ducks&#8217; top affiliate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Seattle Thunderbirds defenseman Shea Theodore has joined the Norfolk  (Va.) Admirals of the American Hockey League, general manager Russ Farwell announced today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Admirals are the top affiliate of the National Hockey League&#8217;s Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Ducks selected Theodore in the first round, 26th overall, of the 2013 NHL Draft. He signed a three-year, entry level contract with the Ducks on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Theodore, a Western Conference All-Star this season, led the T-Birds and all WHL defensemen in scoring with 79 points on 22 goals and 57 assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Theodore set a team record for career goals by a defenseman with 45, passing Deron Quint who had 44 goals with the T-Birds (1993-95).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In 215 career games over three seasons, Theodore distributed 119 assists, finishing with 164 points.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Theodore is third in team history for career points and assists by a defenseman, behind Craig Channell and Thomas Hickey.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Thunderbirds defenseman Shea Theodore has joined the Norfolk (Va.) Admirals of the American Hockey League, general manager Russ Farwell announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":19932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931"}],"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=19931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19931"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}