{"id":2948,"date":"2015-01-07T13:26:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T21:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/t-birds-to-appear-twice-on-friday-night-ice\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T05:05:40","slug":"t-birds-to-appear-twice-on-friday-night-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/t-birds-to-appear-twice-on-friday-night-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Birds to appear twice on &#8216;Friday Night Ice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Seattle Thunderbirds will appear twice on ROOT Sports&#8217; &#8220;Friday Night Ice,&#8221; the network and Western Hockey League (WHL) announced today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The T-Birds will host Spokane on Feb. 6 and travel to Portland for a March 6 matchup. Both games are part of an eight-game broadcast schedule that will bring live WHL action into 3.4 million homes throughout five U.S. states during the regular season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This is the sixth year of the partnership between WHL and ROOT Sports.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The WHL on ROOT Sports will feature the play-by-play of Ian Furness with analysis provided by former WHL and NHL player Kevin Sawyer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The complete telecast schedule:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Friday, Jan. 16 &#8211; Tri-City at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Friday, Jan. 23 &#8211; Everett at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Friday, Feb. 6 &#8211; Portland at Seattle, 7:35 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Friday, Feb. 20 &#8211; Tri-City at Everett, 7:35 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Friday, Feb. 27 &#8211; Spokane at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Friday, March 6, 2015 &#8211; Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Friday, March 13, 2015 &#8211; Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Friday, March 20, 2015 &#8211; Everett at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds will appear twice on ROOT Sports&#8217; &#8220;Friday Night Ice,&#8221; the network and Western Hockey League (WHL) announced today.<\/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-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948"}],"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=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}