{"id":30585,"date":"2017-09-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-ottenbreit-named-captain\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:30:00","slug":"thunderbirds-ottenbreit-named-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-ottenbreit-named-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds&#8217; Ottenbreit named captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds have named defenseman Turner Ottenbreit captain for the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds also named center Donovan Neuls and left wing Nolan Volcan alternate captains. A third alternate captain will rotate among the team leadership group during the season.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Turner exemplifies what we are looking for in a leader,&rdquo; said head coach Matt O&rsquo;Dette. &ldquo;He understands our culture and will show the way for our young team. He along with Nolan and Donovan will provide positive leadership for our group moving forward.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ottenbreit is the 34th captain in team history. Scott Eansor and Mathew Barzal were the team captains during the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n<p>The WHL champion T-Birds begin the Western Hockey League regular season against the Tri-City Americans on Saturday at 7:05 p.m. at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlethunderbirds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">seattlethunderbirds.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds have named defenseman Turner Ottenbreit captain for the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":30586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30585","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\/30585"}],"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=30585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30585"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}