{"id":165394,"date":"2026-02-23T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165394\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:48:19","slug":"toronto-native-raddysh-loses-bet-wears-team-usa-jersey-to-lightning-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165394\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto native Raddysh loses bet, wears Team USA jersey to Lightning practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raddysh was playfully shamed by the team on social media, with a video of his pick followed by footage of him participating at Sunday&#8217;s practice wearing a Team USA jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The defenseman, currently having a career-best season with 52 points (17 goals, 35 assists) in 49 games, took it all in stride, smiling his way through warm-ups and drills wearing the unfamiliar sweater.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning&#8217;s allegiance as an organization were split in the gold medal game, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/short-shifts\/usa-canada-olympics-gold-medal-game-social-reax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">so many others were<\/a>. Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jake-guentzel-8477404\" title=\"Jake Guentzel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Guentzel<\/a> played for Team USA while forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brandon-hagel-8479542\" title=\"Brandon Hagel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Hagel<\/a> played with Canada. Lightning coach Jon Cooper also served as Canada&#8217;s coach.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, looks like Raddysh will have to wait at least four years to get some payback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raddysh was playfully shamed by the team on social media, with a video of his pick followed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-165394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}