{"id":8783,"date":"2014-09-25T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/t-birds-trade-mckechnie-to-saskatoon-for-draft-pick-whl\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T17:55:39","slug":"t-birds-trade-mckechnie-to-saskatoon-for-draft-pick-whl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/t-birds-trade-mckechnie-to-saskatoon-for-draft-pick-whl\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Birds trade Mckechnie to Saskatoon for draft pick | WHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Seattle Thunderbirds has traded right wing Sam Mckechnie to the Saskatoon Blades for a conditional sixth-round selection in the 2015 Bantam Draft, general manager Russ Farwell announced today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Mckechnie played 67 games for the T-Birds last season and had seven goals and 11 assists for 18 points with 50 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In 212 career games with the T-Birds and Lethbridge Hurricanes over four seasons, Mckechnie has 46 goals and 46 assists for 92 points with 144 career penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Mckechnie was originally acquired from the Lethbridge Hurricanes with Jaimen Yakubowski on October 24, 2013 for Riley Sheen, Carter Folk and a third-round pick in the 2015 Bantam Draft.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The T-Birds travel to Kennewick on Friday to take on the Tri-City Americans at Toyota Center at 7:05 p.m.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds has traded right wing Sam Mckechnie to the Saskatoon Blades for a conditional sixth-round selection in the 2015 Bantam Draft, general manager Russ Farwell announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":8784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783"}],"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=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}