{"id":37065,"date":"2018-10-08T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-acquire-defenseman-draft-picks-from-kootenay-in-trade-whl\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T17:53:33","slug":"thunderbirds-acquire-defenseman-draft-picks-from-kootenay-in-trade-whl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-acquire-defenseman-draft-picks-from-kootenay-in-trade-whl\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds acquire defenseman, draft picks from Kootenay in trade | WHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds have acquired defenseman Loeden Schaufler, a ninth-round selection in the 2019 Bantam Draft and conditional future draft picks from the Kootenay ICE for left wing Eric Fawkes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are excited to acquire Schaufler and add depth to our backend,&rdquo; said general manager Bil La Forge. &ldquo;He will be able to step in and help us very quickly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Schaufler, from DeWinton, Alberta, has played one game for the ICE this season but has not registered a point. Schaufler played 32 games with the ICE and had six assists last seaso. He was a third-round selection, 56th overall, in the 2015 Bantam Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Fawkes, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, was the T-Birds&rsquo; second round selection, 40th overall, in the 2016 Bantam Draft. Fawkes had three assists in seven games with the Winkler Flyers in the MJHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds have acquired defenseman Loeden Schaufler, a ninth-round selection in the 2019 Bantam Draft and conditional future draft picks from the Kootenay ICE for left wing Eric Fawkes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"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-37065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065"}],"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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37065"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}