{"id":506,"date":"2014-04-11T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/t-birds-hickman-joins-islanders-top-affiliate\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:25:30","slug":"t-birds-hickman-joins-islanders-top-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/t-birds-hickman-joins-islanders-top-affiliate\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Birds&#8217; Hickman joins Islanders&#8217; top affiliate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Seattle Thunderbirds team captain Justin Hickman has signed an amateur tryout agreement with the Bridgeport (Conn.) Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League, the top affiliate of the NHL&#8217;s New York Islanders.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>General manager Russ Farwell announced the deal Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Hickman had 22 goals and 24 assists for 46 points in 67 games with 154 penalty minutes this season. He had two goals and two assists in nine playoff games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In four seasons with the T-Birds, Hickman has appeared in 254 games and has 104 points on 46 goals and 58 assists with 426 penalty minutes. He was the T-Birds&#8217; second-round selection, 34th overall, in the 2009 Bantam Draft.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Thunderbirds team captain Justin Hickman has signed an amateur tryout agreement with the Bridgeport (Conn.) Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League, the top affiliate of the NHL&#8217;s New York Islanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-506","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\/506"}],"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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}