{"id":46591,"date":"2025-08-06T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46591\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:50:08","slug":"islanders-invite-kids-who-have-lost-parent-to-schaefers-contract-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46591\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders invite kids who have lost parent to Schaefer&#8217;s contract signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schaefer, who lost his mother to breast cancer in February 2024, talked to each family and signed autographs in a video posted by the Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never going to be easy, but I guarantee when you guys are playing baseball, she always has a front row seat to every game you play,\u201d Schaefer told one kid in the video. \u201cShe\u2019s the umpire calling out \u2018strikes, strikes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After, a young fan named Cole presented the Islanders prospect with one last thing to sign: his rookie contract.<\/p>\n<p>The young defenseman then inked his name on the three-year entry-level contract as Cole and Islanders general manager Mathieu Darche looked on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schaefer, who lost his mother to breast cancer in February 2024, talked to each family and signed autographs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-46591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46591","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=46591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}