{"id":371430,"date":"2025-12-26T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371430\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:41:07","slug":"rangers-mika-zibanejads-think-less-mentality-has-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371430\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; Mika Zibanejad&#8217;s &#8216;think less&#8217; mentality has paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through an otherwise turbulent start to the Rangers 2025-26 campaign, one player has held steady.<\/p>\n<p>Mika Zibanejad has more than just bounced back from the most taxing campaign of his career. Coming into this season aiming to \u201cthink less,\u201d the 32-year-old Swede has seemingly shed the mental weight and been able to play up to the standards that have defined his 15 years in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>The defensively savvy Zibanejad is back.<\/p>\n<p>His one-timer on the power play is beginning to connect again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through an otherwise turbulent start to the Rangers 2025-26 campaign, one player has held steady. Mika Zibanejad has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11558,4823,385,99,358],"class_list":["post-371430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-mika-zibanejad","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}