{"id":23712,"date":"1997-09-10T19:11:15","date_gmt":"1997-09-11T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1997\/09\/10\/bgsus-ratchuk-to-depart-for-pros\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:10","slug":"bgsus-ratchuk-to-depart-for-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1997\/09\/10\/bgsus-ratchuk-to-depart-for-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"BGSU’s Ratchuk To Depart For Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune<\/i>, Falcon defenseman Peter Ratchuk has renounced his three remaining years of NCAA eligibility to sign with the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n
Ratchuk, a 6-foot, 175-pound native of Buffalo, N.Y., scored nine goals and added 12 assists for Bowling Green in his rookie campaign last season, garnering honorable mention designation on the CCHA all-rookie team. He was selected in the first round (25th overall) by Colorado in the 1996 NHL draft.<\/p>\n
Terms of the contract were not available, but Ratchuk’s signing bonus was believed to be around $500,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune, Falcon defenseman Peter Ratchuk has renounced his three remaining years of NCAA eligibility to sign with the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche. Ratchuk, a 6-foot, 175-pound native of Buffalo, N.Y., scored nine goals and added 12 assists for Bowling Green in his rookie campaign last season, garnering honorable mention designation on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n