{"id":141414,"date":"2025-09-14T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141414\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:49:08","slug":"former-nhlpa-head-bob-goodenow-dies-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141414\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NHLPA head Bob Goodenow dies at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bob Goodenow pictured in Toronto in 1997.Fred Lum*\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n

Bob Goodenow, the former head of the NHL Players\u2019 Association, has died. He was 72.<\/p>\n

The union announced Goodenow\u2019s death on Saturday. A spokesman for the NHLPA said the organization learned that Goodenow had died from his wife, but he did not know the cause of death.<\/p>\n

\u201cBob was an exceptionally influential leader whose unwavering commitment to the players helped shape the modern era of the NHLPA,\u201d the PA said in a statement. \u201cBob quickly put his stamp on the organization by elevating the level of representation provided by the NHLPA\u2019s staff, tirelessly working to educate the players, strengthening the membership and building trust in the office\u2019s work on behalf of the players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goodenow led the NHLPA during multiple lockouts, including 2004-05 when the entire season was cancelled. He resigned later that summer.<\/p>\n

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in his remembrance of Goodenow noted he was a captain at Harvard and a player in the minors before serving as an agent and working for the union for 14 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Bob Goodenow pictured in Toronto in 1997.Fred Lum*\/The Globe and Mail Bob Goodenow,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3793,3782,64,63,3794,1348,3774,3795,2065,3773,3787,3788,3784,3775,3772,164,2555,75,69,3781,3805,3776,3777,3786,3783,1625,2289,3796,3779,3800,3801,575,3803,3798,3802,3797,3799,3778,3790,3791,84,3789,2111,85,635,105,3792,3785,3780,1346,3804],"class_list":["post-141414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nhl","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}