{"id":1551326,"date":"2022-01-10T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1551326"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:55:40","slug":"hurricanes-assign-new-goalie-lafontaine-to-taxi-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1551326","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes assign new goalie LaFontaine to taxi squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/hurricanes-assign-new-goalie-lafontaine-to-taxi-squad\/20072013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/hockey\/nhl\/hurricanes\/2008\/09\/24\/3602500\/3602500-1458340336-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina Hurricanes Logo\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LaFontaine, 24, signed a one-year, entry-level contract with Carolina yesterday. He earned a 12-8-0 record, 2.69 goals-against average, .900 save percentage and one shutout in 20 NCAA games with Minnesota in 2021-22. He was named the Big Ten Second Star of the Week on Nov. 2 after stopping 54 of 57 shots in a weekend sweep of Notre Dame. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/hurricanes-assign-new-goalie-lafontaine-to-taxi-squad\/20072013\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/hurricanes-assign-new-goalie-lafontaine-to-taxi-squad\/20072013\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Hurricanes assign new goalie LaFontaine to taxi squad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaFontaine, 24, signed a one-year, entry-level contract with Carolina yesterday. He earned a 12-8-0 record, 2.69 goals-against average, .900 save percentage and one shutout in 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canes","category-featured-stories","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909435,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551326\/revisions\/1909435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}