{"id":813002,"date":"2019-07-18T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=813002"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:38:37","slug":"ron-francis-signs-on-as-gm-for-seattle-nhl-expansion-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=813002","title":{"rendered":"Ron Francis signs on as GM for Seattle NHL expansion team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ron-francis-signs-on-as-gm-for-seattle-nhl-expansion-team\/18518527\/\" 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>The first general manager of Seattle&#8217;s NHL team will be familiar to Carolina Hurricanes fans. Media in Seattle announced Thursday that Ron Francis, hockey hall of famer and Stanley Cup winner, had signed with the team. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ron-francis-signs-on-as-gm-for-seattle-nhl-expansion-team\/18518527\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ron-francis-signs-on-as-gm-for-seattle-nhl-expansion-team\/18518527\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Ron Francis signs on as GM for Seattle NHL expansion team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first general manager of Seattle&#8217;s NHL team will be familiar to Carolina Hurricanes fans. Media in Seattle announced Thursday that Ron Francis, hockey hall of&#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-813002","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\/813002","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=813002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910554,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813002\/revisions\/1910554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}