{"id":67429,"date":"2025-08-13T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67429\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:29:08","slug":"balinskis-takes-stanley-cup-to-home-country-of-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67429\/","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":67430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-67429","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\/67429","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=67429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}