{"id":6666,"date":"2010-03-29T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/rai-signs-with-vancouver-canucks\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T02:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:35:27","slug":"rai-signs-with-vancouver-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/rai-signs-with-vancouver-canucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rai signs with Vancouver Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left wing finishes T-Bird career with 218 points in 238 games<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Thunderbirds General Manager Russ Farwell has announced left wing Prab Rai has been signed by the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy for Prab and wish him all the best as he moves on to his career as a pro,\u201d said Farwell. \u201cPrab has been a great contributor for us over the years. Each season he assumed a larger leadership role. This year he provided a very steadying influence and positive example to our young group of players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rai was selected by the Canucks in the fifth round, 131st overall, in the 2008 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds acquired Rai Dec. 19, 2006, in a trade with the Prince George Cougars for Chad Hohmann. In three and half seasons with the T-Birds, Rai appeared in 238 games. He had 91 goals and 127 assists for 218 points with 88 penalty minutes and a plus\/minus rating of plus-32.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds are now accepting season ticket deposits for the 2010-11 Western Hockey League season. For more information, please call the T-Birds ticket office at (253) 239-7825.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left wing finishes T-Bird career with 218 points in 238 games<br \/>\nSeattle Thunderbirds General Manager Russ Farwell has announced left wing Prab Rai has been signed by the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":6667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6666","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\/6666"}],"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=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}