{"id":601277,"date":"2016-12-28T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T21:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=601277"},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T21:03:04","slug":"bolts-sign-howden-to-three-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/bolts-sign-howden-to-three-year-entry-level-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolts Sign Howden To Three Year Entry Level Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player.php?player=232712\">Brett Howden<\/a> to a three-year, entry-level contract today, Lightning vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman announced.<\/p>\n[protected-iframe id=&#8221;3e63298c8df1046b4b80a479fd529063-114320562-46289989&#8243; info=&#8221;\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&#8221; class=&#8221;twitter-tweet&#8221;]\n<p>Here&#8217;s the release from the team:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Howden, 6-foot-3, 191 pounds, has played in 21 games with the Moose Jaw Warriors of the Western Hockey League this season, recording 16 goals and 32 points along with four power-play goals. He ranks fourth on the Warriors for goals and fifth for points despite missing time due to injury. Howden&#8217;s current 1.52 points per game average would be a career high.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A native of Oakbank, Manitoba, Howden has skated in 162 career WHL games, all with Moose Jaw, with 63 goals and 143 points.\u00a0 He has also amassed 104 penalty minutes and 20 power-play goals. Howden played in 10 WHL playoff games last season and notched four goals and 15 points. He was named the Warriors&#8217; Rookie of the Year for the 2014-15 season.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Howden was selected by Tampa Bay in the first round, 27th overall, of the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow me on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LightningShout\" target=\"_blank\">@LightningShout <\/a>and please \u201clike\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Lightningshout\/\" target=\"_blank\">LightningShout <\/a>on Facebook. You can email us at lightningshout@aol.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward Brett Howden to a three-year, entry-level contract today, Lightning vice president and general&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27694890],"tags":[526903,202070967,1994,1996,743638,287709],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bolts Sign Howden To Three Year Entry Level Contract - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/bolts-sign-howden-to-three-year-entry-level-contract\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bolts Sign Howden To Three Year Entry Level Contract\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/bolts-sign-howden-to-three-year-entry-level-contract\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-28T21:03:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/bolts-sign-howden-to-three-year-entry-level-contract\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/bolts-sign-howden-to-three-year-entry-level-contract\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Bolts Sign Howden To Three Year Entry Level Contract\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-28T21:03:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-28T21:03:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/bolts-sign-howden-to-three-year-entry-level-contract\/\"},\"wordCount\":209,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"AHL\",\"Brett Howden\",\"hockey\",\"NHL\",\"Syracuse Crunch\",\"Tampa Bay Lightning\"],\"articleSection\":[\"LightningShout\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2016\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/bolts-sign-howden-to-three-year-entry-level-contract\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/bolts-sign-howden-to-three-year-entry-level-contract\/\",\"name\":\"Bolts Sign Howden To Three Year Entry Level Contract - 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