{"id":4592,"date":"2014-01-21T14:40:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/t-birds-kozun-named-chl-goaltender-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T03:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:35:30","slug":"t-birds-kozun-named-chl-goaltender-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/t-birds-kozun-named-chl-goaltender-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Birds&#8217; Kozun named CHL Goaltender of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Seattle Thunderbirds&#8217; Taran Kozun is the Vaughn CHL Goaltender of the Week for the week ending Jan. 19, the Canadian Hockey League announced today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kozun posted a 3-0 record with two shutout victories along with a goals-against-average of 0.65 and save percentage of .977.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Playing in his first three games with the team, Kozun backstopped the Thunderbirds to three straight wins last week, helping extend the club&#8217;s winning-streak to six and lifting them into fourth place in the WHL&#8217;s Western Conference standings with a 28-14-2-3 record.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kozun made his debut with the Thunderbirds in style, recording back-to-back shutout victories including a 28-save performance as first star of a 1-0 overtime win over the Spokane Chiefs last Tuesday before stopping all 26 shots he faced on Friday as first star of a 4-0 win over the Tri-City Americans.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>His week wrapped up Saturday with 30 saves as part of a 3-2 victory against his former team the Kamloops Blazers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kozun was acquired from the Blazers at the Jan. 10 trade deadline for defenseman Austin Douglas, goalie Justin Myles and a fourth round pick in the 2015 Bantam Draft.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Thunderbirds&#8217; Taran Kozun is the Vaughn CHL Goaltender of the Week for the week ending Jan. 19, the Canadian Hockey League 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":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592"}],"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=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}