{"id":50519,"date":"2013-03-22T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=50519"},"modified":"2013-03-22T11:57:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:57:23","slug":"tampa-bay-signs-nebraska-omaha-defenseman-sustr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2013\/03\/22\/tampa-bay-signs-nebraska-omaha-defenseman-sustr\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay signs Nebraska-Omaha defenseman Sustr"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nebraska-Omaha junior defenseman Andrej Sustr<\/a> has signed a two-year entry-level contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>, forgoing his senior season with the Mavericks<\/p>\n Sustr tallied nine goals and 25 points in 39 games with Nebraska-Omaha in 2012-13 to go along with 53 penalty minutes. The 6-foot-8, 225-pound defender participated in the Lightning’s summer development camp last summer.<\/p>\n “Andre is a big, mobile, right-shot defenseman with very good skills,” Tampa Bay GM Steve Yzerman said in a statement. “We feel he has great potential to develop into a good NHL player. We’re excited to have him join our organization.”<\/p>\n Sustr, a 22-year-old Czech Republic native, skated in 111 career games in Omaha, posting 15 goals and 51 points to go along with a plus-24 rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nebraska-Omaha junior defenseman Andrej Sustr has signed a two-year entry-level contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning, forgoing his senior season with the Mavericks Sustr tallied nine goals and 25 points in 39 games with Nebraska-Omaha in 2012-13 to go along with 53 penalty minutes. The 6-foot-8, 225-pound defender participated in the Lightning’s summer development camp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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