{"id":1036,"date":"2009-07-31T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2009-07-31T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T19:36:00","slug":"flyers-sign-tollefsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Flyers sign Tollefsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Flyers agreed to terms on a one-year contract with defenseman Ole-Kristian Tollefsen yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ole is a defenseman with size and defends very well,&#8221; said general manager Paul Holmgren, who did not release financial details. &#8220;At 25 years old, he is an ideal fit to the core of our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The native of Norway is 6-foot-2 and weighs 211 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have always been a fan of the Philadelphia Flyers and what they are all about,&#8221; Tollefsen said. &#8220;They play a gritty style of hockey, and that is typical of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tollefsen, 25, appeared in 19 games with Columbus last season but missed 39 games and all four Stanley Cup games because of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Oslo native is just the fifth Norwegian-born player to play in the NHL and the second player on the Flyers after Patrick Thoresen. -philly.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well if Emery can be as good as we all hope, the Flyers could be in for a GREAT season. \u00a0Adding all of the peices that they needed to add and now looking as if they want the Cup in their hands this year.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flyers agreed to terms on a one-year contract with defenseman Ole-Kristian Tollefsen yesterday. &#8220;Ole is a defenseman with size and defends very well,&#8221; said general manager&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia_flyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}