{"id":789390,"date":"2019-06-22T18:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=789390"},"modified":"2019-06-22T18:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:18:56","slug":"american-players-rise-to-the-top-in-the-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=789390","title":{"rendered":"American players rise to the top in the NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/american-players-rise-to-the-top-in-the-nhl-draft\/18467923\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/hockey\/nhl\/2019\/06\/21\/18466624\/media_2d52b6705846468f9c91a71bbbe98adc-DMID1-5j88v9uyb-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NHL_Draft_Preview_Hockey_47508\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The first round of the NHL draft Friday yielded one of the strongest showings ever by American-born players &#8212; and not just because Jack Hughes was selected at No. 1 by the New Jersey Devils. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/american-players-rise-to-the-top-in-the-nhl-draft\/18467923\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/american-players-rise-to-the-top-in-the-nhl-draft\/18467923\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"American players rise to the top in the NHL Draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the NHL draft Friday yielded one of the strongest showings ever by American-born players &#8212; and not just because Jack Hughes was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789390","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=789390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}