{"id":1553348,"date":"2022-01-13T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1553348"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:24:37","slug":"eric-staal-signs-ahl-tryout-contract-hopes-to-play-in-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1553348","title":{"rendered":"Eric Staal signs AHL tryout contract, hopes to play in Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/eric-staal-signs-ahl-tryout-contract-hopes-to-play-in-winter-olympics\/20077005\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/hockey\/nhl\/hurricanes\/2017\/10\/08\/17002595\/304571-CHvMW_10-7-17__H004-DMID1-5tjqv9ehs-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Canes defeat Minnesota Wild\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With hopes to play in the Winter Olympics, Eric Staal has signed a professional tryout contract with the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League. Staal has said he wants to to play for Team Canada in Beijing. If selected, he plans to play for the Minnesota Wild&#8217;s AHL affiliate to get in shape for the Games. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/eric-staal-signs-ahl-tryout-contract-hopes-to-play-in-winter-olympics\/20077005\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/eric-staal-signs-ahl-tryout-contract-hopes-to-play-in-winter-olympics\/20077005\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Eric Staal signs AHL tryout contract, hopes to play in Winter Olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hopes to play in the Winter Olympics, Eric Staal has signed a professional tryout contract with the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League. Staal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553348","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\/1553348","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910208,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553348\/revisions\/1910208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}