{"id":161429,"date":"2025-09-22T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161429\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:52:14","slug":"kitchener-rangers-forward-impresses-in-nhl-pre-season-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161429\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchener Rangers forward impresses in NHL pre-season debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish-date\">Posted Sep 22, 2025 07:23:49 AM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-modified-date\">Last Updated Sep 22, 2025 07:52:03 AM.<\/p>\n<p>A Blueshirt made an impact in a losing effort for the New York Islanders on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>18-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kitchener Rangers<\/a> forward Luca Romano was wearing Islanders colours on Sunday as they took on the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>The game went all the way to a shootout, where young Romano netted a shootout goal in the 10th round. <\/p>\n<p>In spite of Romano\u2019s impressive effort, the Islanders went on to lose 3-2 to the Flyers. <\/p>\n<p>His teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/kitchener.citynews.ca\/2025\/09\/21\/rangers-start-the-season-off-strong-with-2-0-record-with-a-win-over-the-otter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back in Kitchener<\/a> were impressive to begin their season, winning on opening night and in their first road trip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Sep 22, 2025 07:23:49 AM. Last Updated Sep 22, 2025 07:52:03 AM. A Blueshirt made an impact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-161429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161429","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=161429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}