Deslauriers got to see his name in person when he celebrated with the Stanley Cup here on Friday, starting at a home in the city he and his wife, Joanie, closed on June 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
North Wildwood became a favorite vacation spot for Deslauriers and his family during his four seasons with the Flyers.<\/p>\n
“We started coming down here quite a bit with the kids (Payton, Madison, Jaxon, Colton), and got kind of really in love with it,” he said. “Been looking for three years to buy a place, and … was able to settle on the house two weeks after winning the Cup. Kind of made it a special place.<\/p>\n
“Just great people around here. They always supported me, even if I wasn’t playing or you know those things. It made it easy to kind of make that decision to come here.”<\/p>\n
After taking family photos at home and at the beach, Deslauriers and his family spent most of the day taking more photos with fans at Seaport Pier.<\/p>\n
Among the more than 1,100 fans in attendance was North Wildwood Mayor Salvatore Zampirri, who read a proclamation declaring it Nicolas Deslauriers Day in the city.<\/p>\n
“It’s unbelievable,” Zampirri said. “How many places got to have a chance to have Lord Stanley here in their hometown?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deslauriers got to see his name in person when he celebrated with the Stanley Cup here on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-809699","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\/809699","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=809699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}