{"id":38575,"date":"2017-08-03T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T11:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=38575"},"modified":"2017-08-03T11:56:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T11:56:26","slug":"preds-captain-mike-fisher-retires-17-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/preds-captain-mike-fisher-retires-17-seasons.html","title":{"rendered":"Preds captain Mike Fisher retires after 17 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Preds captain Mike Fisher retires after 17 seasons<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Preds captain Mike Fisher retires after 17 seasons:- Predators captain Mike Fisher will retire from the National Hockey League after 17 seasons, according to The Tennessean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">After the Preds\u2019 Stanley Cup season came to an end, 37-year-old Fisher was still on the fence about whether or not he will return to the NHL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cI want to separate myself from the season and get some quiet time, kind of away, prayer and just figure out my decision,\u201d said Fisher. \u201cIt\u2019s not an easy decision, no question. Lots of positives to both, but it\u2019ll take time. I know it\u2019ll come. I\u2019ll try not to put any pressure on myself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">As he cleaned out his locker last month, Fisher told News 2 how much he loves the game and playing with the Preds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Fisher did not score a goal in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs but did put together a solid season with 18 goals and 24 assists. Goalie Pekka Rinne gushed about the captain as they packed up their lockers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cHe\u2019s a great person. I think he makes people around him better. I think that\u2019s a great quality that he has. At the same time he\u2019s our Captain, so, still a big time impact player.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The 37- year-old will become an unrestricted free agent on July 1. The Predators first year captain has played 17 seasons in the NHL and in 1,088 games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Fisher is married to country superstar Carrie Underwood. They have a 2-year-old son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/wkrn.com\/2017\/08\/03\/preds-captain-mike-fisher-retires-after-17-seasons\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/preds-captain-mike-fisher-retires-17-seasons.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preds captain Mike Fisher retires after 17 seasons Preds captain Mike Fisher retires after 17 seasons:- Predators captain Mike Fisher will retire from the National Hockey League after 17 seasons, according to The Tennessean. After the Preds\u2019 Stanley Cup season came to an end, 37-year-old Fisher was still on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34898],"class_list":["post-38575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-preds-captain-mike-fisher-retires-after-17-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}