{"id":848210,"date":"2026-08-08T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848210\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:36:11","slug":"melbourne-mustangs-sign-austin-hoffman-ice-hockey-news-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848210\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Mustangs\u00a0sign Austin Hoffman \u2013 Ice Hockey News Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Thumbnail-Melbourne-Mustangs-002.png\" alt=\"Ice Hockey News Australia Melbourne Mustangs featured image thumbnail\" title=\"Thumbnail - Melbourne Mustangs-002\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Melbourne Mustangs have signed goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/682001\/austin-hoffman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Hoffman<\/a> for the 2026 Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) season. Hoffman joins the team from Perth Thunder where he served as a backup goaltender in four games between May and July. Outside of the AIHL, Hoffman has been playing for the Northern Bobcats in Ice Hockey WA\u2019s Senior Division 1.<\/p>\n<p>Further information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Melbourne Mustangs have signed goaltender Austin Hoffman for the 2026 Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) season. Hoffman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-848210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}