{"id":570548,"date":"2026-03-30T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:39:08","slug":"former-nhler-st-johns-capitals-player-and-coach-bill-riley-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570548\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NHLer, St. John\u2019s Capitals Player and Coach Bill Riley Passes Away"},"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\/2026\/03\/bill-riley-via-amherst-jr-a-ramblers-on-facebook.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Former NHLer, St. John's Capitals Player and Coach Bill Riley Passes Away\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via the Amherst Jr. &#8216;A&#8217; Ramblers on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>A man whose name is synonymous with senior hockey in its heyday in Newfoundland has passed. <\/p>\n<p>Bill Riley, who was hired as player\/coach by the St. John\u2019s Capitals in the mid-80s, came in on the back of a short NHL career with the Washington Capitals and the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n<p>It was the days of the Bleacher Creatures at the old Memorial Stadium when a ticket wasn\u2019t always easy to get. <\/p>\n<p>Riley, as no-nonsense a coach as there was, was from Amherst, Nova Scotia. He was 75 years old. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Via the Amherst Jr. &#8216;A&#8217; Ramblers on Facebook. A man whose name is synonymous with senior hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-570548","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\/570548","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=570548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}