{"id":14736,"date":"2003-07-07T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-07T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/07\/kariya-and-selanne-sign-with-colorado-avalanche\/"},"modified":"2003-07-07T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-07T14:35:00","slug":"kariya-and-selanne-sign-with-colorado-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/07\/kariya-and-selanne-sign-with-colorado-avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Kariya And Selanne Sign With Colorado Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nhl\/news\/2003\/0703\/1576273.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Colorado Avalanche\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/coloradoavalanche.gif\" \/><\/a>Colorado is probably going to be the team to beat next season.  <i>ESPN<\/i> reports that &ldquo;the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nhl\/news\/2003\/0703\/1576273.html\" target=\"_blank\">former Anaheim teammates both took major <em>pay cuts<\/em> Thursday in agreeing to contracts with the Colorado Avalanche<\/a>.&rdquo; &ldquo;&lsquo;When we both became free agents, we made a hockey decision,&rsquo; Kariya said at a news conference. &#8216;We both said, &quot;Forget about the money, where&rsquo;s the place we want to play?&rdquo; And Colorado jumped out at both of us immediately. So we made things work monetarily.&rsquo;&ldquo;  Wow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-105758854840524861?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado is probably going to be the team to beat next season. ESPN reports that &ldquo;the former Anaheim teammates both took major pay cuts Thursday in agreeing to contracts with the Colorado Avalanche.&rdquo; &ldquo;&lsquo;When we both became free agents, we made a hockey decision,&rsquo; Kariya said at a news conference. &#8216;We both said, &quot;Forget about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/07\/kariya-and-selanne-sign-with-colorado-avalanche\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kariya And Selanne Sign With Colorado Avalanche&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}