{"id":20354,"date":"2011-06-15T15:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T22:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/seattle-thunderbirds-to-name-new-head-coach-june-16-western-hockey-league\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T15:35:38","slug":"seattle-thunderbirds-to-name-new-head-coach-june-16-western-hockey-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/seattle-thunderbirds-to-name-new-head-coach-june-16-western-hockey-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Thunderbirds to name new head coach June 16 | Western Hockey League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team will name their new head coach in a 3 p.m. press conference Thursday in the Club Lounge at the ShoWare Center in Kent, according to a Wednesday T-Birds media release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Fans are encouraged to attend the press conference. Those attending should park and enter ShoWare Center from the east-side doors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a title=\"hockey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwlocalnews.com\/south_king\/ken\/news\/118868669.html\" target=\"_self\">Seattle fired coach Rob Sumner<\/a> in March after the 2010-11 season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The T-Birds missed the Western Hockey League playoffs for the second straight season. They finished with a record of 27-35-5-5. Seattle had only three wins in 20 games during a stretch in the middle of the season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The T-Birds placed ninth out of 10 teams in the Western Conference. The top eight advanced to the playoffs. The T-Birds won eight more games this season compared to last year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sumner was the head coach of the T-Birds for seven years.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team will name their new head coach in a 3 p.m. press conference Thursday in the Club Lounge at the ShoWare Center in Kent, according to a Wednesday T-Birds media release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":20355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20354","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\/20354"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20354"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}