{"id":811941,"date":"2019-07-16T22:37:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=811941"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:47:01","slug":"ap-source-seattle-close-to-naming-former-hurricanes-star-gm-ron-francis-as-new-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=811941","title":{"rendered":"AP source: Seattle close to naming former Hurricanes star, GM Ron Francis as new GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-seattle-close-to-naming-ron-francis-as-gm\/18514522\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/hockey\/nhl\/hurricanes\/2019\/01\/14\/18124453\/14391-jeff6pm-DMID1-5hh6fe6c6-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"From power plays to power broker: Ron Francis discusses career change\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s NHL expansion team is close to an agreement with Hockey Hall of Famer Ron Francis to become its first general manager, a person with direct knowledge tells The Associated Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-seattle-close-to-naming-ron-francis-as-gm\/18514522\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-seattle-close-to-naming-ron-francis-as-gm\/18514522\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"AP source: Seattle close to naming former Hurricanes star, GM Ron Francis as new GM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle&#8217;s NHL expansion team is close to an agreement with Hockey Hall of Famer Ron Francis to become its first general manager, a person with direct&#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-811941","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\/811941","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=811941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909176,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811941\/revisions\/1909176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}