{"id":73076,"date":"2025-08-10T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73076\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:23:08","slug":"nhl-wasnt-interested-so-former-red-wings-forward-off-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73076\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL wasn\u2019t interested, so former Red Wings forward off to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Jakub Vrana\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LVSUTD5HKRBK3NF43T5ZFM3YBA.JPG\" \/>Former Red Wings forward Jakub Vrana spent the past three seasons with St. Louis, Washington and Nashville. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"U5UGO7FFD5CQLFUJPF7GKJF2AA\">Former Detroit Red Wings forward Jakub Vrana held out for as long as he could hoping the NHL would give him another chance. It wasn\u2019t happening, so the former promising offensive talent has signed a two-year deal with Linkoping of the Swedish Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KMLBZCLGO5B3ZHFPP4S65CUCFE\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a pretty hectic summer,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lhc.eu\/article\/r8rat0o-30c01\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lhc.eu\/article\/r8rat0o-30c01\/view\">Vrana said on Linkoping\u2019s web site. <\/a>\u201cI left the U.S. and then I had a couple of options around Europe, but for me personally, I chose with my heart. The fact that we\u2019ve got everything sorted out is a relief and I\u2019m extremely happy to be coming back to Link\u00f6ping as I basically grew up in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Red Wings forward Jakub Vrana spent the past three seasons with St. Louis, Washington and Nashville. (AP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-73076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73076","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=73076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}