{"id":343380,"date":"2026-07-17T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343380\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:59:33","slug":"syracuse-crunch-tampa-bay-lightning-extend-affiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343380\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse Crunch, Tampa Bay Lightning extend affiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The partnership runs through the 2029-2030 season.<\/p>\n<p>SYRACUSE, NY (<a href=\"http:\/\/607newsnow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">607NewsNow<\/a>) \u2014 Hockey fans in Syracuse have a reason to smile.<\/p>\n<p>The Syracuse Crunch and Tampa Bay Lightning are extending their affiliation. The partnership runs through the 2029-2030 season.<\/p>\n<p>Crunch Owner Howard Dolgon <a href=\"https:\/\/syracusecrunch.com\/news\/2026\/7\/15\/tampa-bay-lightning-syracuse-crunch-announce-four-year-affiliation-extension.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the team is \u201chonored and excited\u201d to extend the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past 14 seasons of this relationship, Crunch fans have been treated to the most competitive, highest quality of hockey in our franchise\u2019s history,\u201d Dolgon said. \u201cWe look forward to more of the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Syracuse appeared in the Calder Cup Finals in 2013 and 2017. This past season, the team was eliminated in the North Division Semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay has also experienced recent success: The Lightning won the Stanley Cup in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The partnership runs through the 2029-2030 season. SYRACUSE, NY (607NewsNow) \u2014 Hockey fans in Syracuse have a reason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-343380","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\/343380","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=343380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}