{"id":99480,"date":"2022-08-09T19:11:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/new-bruins-forward-pavel-zacha-says-he-wants-to-stay-in-boston-for-a-long-time"},"modified":"2022-08-09T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:11:50","slug":"new-bruins-forward-pavel-zacha-says-he-wants-to-stay-in-boston-for-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/new-bruins-forward-pavel-zacha-says-he-wants-to-stay-in-boston-for-a-long-time","title":{"rendered":"New Bruins forward Pavel Zacha says he &#8216;wants to stay in Boston for a long time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to Boston as a restricted free-agent, former New Jersey Devils forward Pavel Zacha ended up settling on a one-year, $3.5 million contract with the Boston Bruins Monday, a term which is generally considered a short deal for a player in his prime. In his media availability on Tuesday, Zacha, who is 25, explained why a one-year deal made sense for both sides. &#8220;I think we met where we wanted, I got exactly what I wanted for a contract,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We talked about it with my agent and with Boston. We made a decision on just focusing on this one year, bringing guys like Bergy and Krejci, having a big chance of having a good year as a team&#8221; Zacha said, &#8220;I think that was the biggest thing from both sides.&#8221; Despite the one-year contract, Zacha has hopes to stick with Boston for an extended period of time. &#8220;If everything goes well, they know I want to stay in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Boston Bruins forward Pavel Zacha spoke with the media and said he wants to stay in Boston for a long time. Zacha played for the New Jersey Devils last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,149,58],"class_list":["post-99480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}