{"id":864559,"date":"2026-08-20T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864559\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:14:09","slug":"2-former-nhl-players-find-new-homes-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864559\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Former NHL Players Find New Homes Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skinner, a six-time 30-goal scorer and former Calder Trophy winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/jeff-skinner-signs-with-swiss-club-ehc-biel-bienne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a one-year deal<\/a> with Swiss club EHC Biel-Bienne in the National League. The 34-year-old saw his contract mutually terminated by the San Jose Sharks midway through last season after recording 13 points in 32 games. Following an impressive 16-year North American career spanning over 1,100 games, the veteran winger heads to Switzerland to reignite his offensive touch in a top-line role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skinner, a six-time 30-goal scorer and former Calder Trophy winner, signed a one-year deal with Swiss club EHC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-864559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}