{"id":65914,"date":"2025-08-13T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65914\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:20:07","slug":"balinskis-takes-stanley-cup-to-home-country-of-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65914\/","title":{"rendered":"Balinskis takes Stanley Cup to home country of Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood feeling to have the Cup again,\u201d Balinskis told the Panthers website. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balinskis started the day at Marupe Ice Rink, where he shared the Cup with local youth hockey players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty cool,\u201d Balinskis said. \u201cThe kids love it and that\u2019s the most important thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t see it every day here, and I have a chance to show it to the kids so that\u2019s pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second stop was to Tukums Ice Rink, a place where Balinskis grew up playing hockey. He even got to reconnect with his former youth hockey coach at the rink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took really good care of me,\u201d the 29-year-old said. \u201cGave me a place to stay and I was going to school here too so made a lot of friends. We\u2019re still really close. Nice that I can bring the Cup now. This is a special place for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balinskis ended the day with a family party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGood feeling to have the Cup again,\u201d Balinskis told the Panthers website. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome.\u201d Balinskis started the day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-65914","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\/65914","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=65914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}