{"id":32311,"date":"2018-01-08T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-trade-berlin-to-kootenay-for-draft-pick\/"},"modified":"2018-01-08T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T20:05:37","slug":"thunderbirds-trade-berlin-to-kootenay-for-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-trade-berlin-to-kootenay-for-draft-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds trade Berlin to Kootenay for draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds have traded goalie Matt Berlin to the Kootenay Ice in exchange for a fifth-round pick in the 2018 Bantam Draft.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Matt was a solid contributor and an excellent teammate for us for both years here and we wish him good luck in Kootenay,&rdquo; said general manager Russ Farwell.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin has a 12-7-2-1 record in 24 games this season. He has a goals against average of 3.40 and a save percentage of .893 with one shutout. Berlin was acquired from the Spokane Chiefs last season and had a 7-2-2-0 record with a 2.82 goals against average and a .902 save percentage as the T-Birds won the 2017 WHL championship.<\/p>\n<p>The trade of Berlin comes after Liam Hughes took over at goalie. Hughes improved to 8-4-1-0 after he had 39 saves Saturday night in a 4-1 win over the Spokane Chiefs, Seattle&rsquo;s fifth consecutive victory.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds play the Portland Winterhawks at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday at the accesso ShoWare Center on a Directors Mortgage 2-for-Tuesday. All tickets and beer are two-for-one and there are $2 concession specials on hot dogs, popcorn and soda.<\/p>\n<p>Order tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlethunderbirds.com\/#sm.01gf8wq511lyfej10w81ji1g59vhq\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds have traded goalie Matt Berlin to the Kootenay Ice in exchange for a fifth-round pick in the 2018 Bantam Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":32312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32311","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\/32311"}],"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=32311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32311"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}