{"id":13215,"date":"2025-07-21T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13215\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:36:08","slug":"matt-cooke-takes-over-vernon-vipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13215\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Cooke takes over Vernon Vipers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/matt-cooke.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Matt Cooke takes over Vernon Vipers\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Stirling native Matt Cooke is the new coach and general manager of the Vernon Vipers of the BCHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cooke returns to British Columbia where he spent the first nine seasons of his NHL career with the\u00a0 Canucks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He went on to play 1046 NHL games withVancouver, Pittsburgh, Washington and Minnesota winning the Stanley Cup in 2009 while with the Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>He retired following the 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old Cooke, a member of the Belleville Sports Hall of Fame, recently coached the now defunct Newfoundland Growlers of the ECHL.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Stirling native Matt Cooke is the new coach and general manager of the Vernon Vipers of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[3735,3736,49,48,44,448,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,82,3732],"class_list":["post-13215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-bancroft","tag-brighton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-pec","tag-picton","tag-prince-edward-county","tag-quinte","tag-quinte-news","tag-quinte-west","tag-sports","tag-trenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}