{"id":730915,"date":"2026-06-12T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730915\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:29:08","slug":"kings-new-coach-laviolette-corrects-pronunciation-of-san-diego-in-anchorman-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730915\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings new coach Laviolette corrects pronunciation of San Diego in ‘Anchorman’ reference"},"content":{"rendered":"

At his introductory press conference as new head coach of the Los Angeles Kings, it’s safe to say Peter Laviolette was in a glass case of emotion.<\/p>\n

The veteran head coach met the media on Wednesday and talked opportunity, strategy and a little about his hockey past. When a reporter mentioned Laviolette’s playing career, citing his season with the San Diego Gulls (then of the IHL now of the AHL), Laviolette was quick to correct his pronunciation.<\/p>\n

“San Di-AH-go,” Laviolette said, as the room of gathered media members clearly got the joke<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At his introductory press conference as new head coach of the Los Angeles Kings, it’s safe to say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-730915","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\/730915","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=730915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}