{"id":140335,"date":"2025-05-06T12:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/v-ljubljano-prihaja-kanadski-branilec-clayton-kirichenko\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:56:12","slug":"v-ljubljano-prihaja-kanadski-branilec-clayton-kirichenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/v-ljubljano-prihaja-kanadski-branilec-clayton-kirichenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian defenseman Clayton Kirichenko is joining Olimpija"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"210\">HK Olimpija Ljubljana announces a new addition to its defensive lineup! The club has signed Canadian defenseman Clayton Kirichenko, the top-scoring defenseman in the ICE Hockey League during the 2023\/24 season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"708\">Clayton Kirichenko is a versatile defenseman with significant offensive upside. Before coming to Europe, Kirichenko stood out in Canadian university hockey, where he captained the University of Alberta team to a championship title. In the 2023\/24 season, he played for Pioneers Vorarlberg in the ICE Hockey League, making a strong impression as the highest-scoring defenseman with an impressive 41 points in 48 games. This season, he started in Germany\u2019s DEL and finished in the Slovak Extraliga.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"710\" data-end=\"985\">An\u017ee Ul\u010dar, Director of HK Olimpija Ljubljana: \u201cClayton is a defenseman with great offensive potential while remaining reliable in his defensive duties. He will play an important role on our team, joining us as a specialist for key situations, especially on the power play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HK Olimpija Ljubljana announces a new addition to its defensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":140331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-sl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140336,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140335\/revisions\/140336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}