{"id":22214,"date":"2011-11-10T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T22:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/seattle-thunderbird-player-of-the-week-video-4\/"},"modified":"2011-11-10T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T22:36:21","slug":"seattle-thunderbird-player-of-the-week-video-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/seattle-thunderbird-player-of-the-week-video-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Thunderbird Player of the Week | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p style=\"font-size: 1.1em;background-color: #ffffff;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: -webkit-auto;text-indent: 0px;padding: 5px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\">Seattle Thunderbird defenceman Kyle Verdino is Kent Repoters Thunderbird of the week.\u00a0 Verdino is 20 years-old from Phoenix, AZ. He started his career with the Kelowna Rockets then moved to the Swift Current Broncos.\u00a0 The T-Birds picked him up from the Broncos and for this season has played 11 games has 2 goals, 6 assist and 35 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-size: 1.1em;background-color: #ffffff;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: -webkit-auto;text-indent: 0px;padding: 5px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-size: 1.1em;background-color: #ffffff;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: -webkit-auto;text-indent: 0px;padding: 5px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;background-color: transparent;padding: 0px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\">2010-11:<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Kyle played in 67 games with the Swift Current Broncos and had four goals and 16 assists for 20 points and 156 penalty minutes. He had four two-game point streaks during the season. Kyle was acquired from the Broncos for a conditional fifth round selection in the 2013 Bantam Draft.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-size: 1.1em;background-color: #ffffff;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: -webkit-auto;text-indent: 0px;padding: 5px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;background-color: transparent;padding: 0px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\">2009-10:<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Kyle scored 5 points (5 assists) in 26 with Kelowna. Swift Current acquired Verdino mid-season, and he went on to score 7 points for the Broncos in 28 games. Combined, he finished the season with 12 points (1G, 11A) and 80 PIM.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-size: 1.1em;background-color: #ffffff;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: -webkit-auto;text-indent: 0px;padding: 5px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;background-color: transparent;padding: 0px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\">2008-09:<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>In his first full WHL season, Kyle played in 64 games. He registered 10 assists and 54 PIM.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-size: 1.1em;background-color: #ffffff;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: -webkit-auto;text-indent: 0px;padding: 5px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;background-color: transparent;padding: 0px;margin: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\">2007-08:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/strong>Verdino played in 32 games for Kelowna, scoring 2 points on 2 assists.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Thunderbird defenceman Kyle Verdino is Kent Repoters Thunderbird of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":22215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22214","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\/22214"}],"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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22214"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}