{"id":29739,"date":"2017-08-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-acquire-right-winger-from-royals\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:30:00","slug":"thunderbirds-acquire-right-winger-from-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-acquire-right-winger-from-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds acquire right winger from Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds have acquired right wing Blake Bargar from the Victoria Royals in exchange for defenseman Anthony Bishop.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This trade gives us an older, experienced forward and allows Bishop to play defense,&rdquo; said general manager Russ Farwell. &ldquo;It was a good fit for both.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bargar had six goals and four assists in 61 games with the Royals last season.<\/p>\n<p>In three seasons in the WHL with the Royals and Moose Jaw Warriors, Bargar has played 180 games and has eight goals and 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Bargar, from Torrance, Calif., was originally drafted by Warriors in the seventh round, 134th overall, in the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop played 66 games with the T-Birds last season and had two goals and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>The WHL champion T-Birds begin the 2017-18 regular season against the Tri-City Americans at 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23 at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and other information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlethunderbirds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">seattlethunderbirds.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds have acquired right wing Blake Bargar from the Victoria Royals in exchange for defenseman Anthony Bishop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739"}],"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=29739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29739"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}