{"id":169097,"date":"2026-02-25T20:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169097\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:18:10","slug":"coach-jon-cooper-to-miss-2-games-after-death-of-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169097\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Jon Cooper to miss 2 games after death of father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 The Tampa Bay Lightning are back in action Wednesday night after a break for the Olympics, but they will be without their head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The team said Jon Cooper will not be behind the bench because of the death of his father.<\/p>\n<p>He will miss tonight&#8217;s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, along with Thursday night&#8217;s game at the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper is in his 14th season as the Lightning&#8217;s coach, with 11 playoff appearances and two Stanley Cup titles.<\/p>\n<p>During the Olympics, he coached Canada&#8217;s men&#8217;s hockey team to a silver medal, losing to the U.S. in overtime in Sunday&#8217;s gold medal contest.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s game starts at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 The Tampa Bay Lightning are back in action Wednesday night after a break for the Olympics,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1242,1238,115,275,110,135,862,137,136],"class_list":["post-169097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169097","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=169097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}