{"id":100496,"date":"2025-08-21T23:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100496\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:29:07","slug":"ekblad-brings-stanley-cup-to-former-ohl-arena-in-barrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100496\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekblad brings Stanley Cup to former OHL arena in Barrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/aaron-ekblad-8477932\" title=\"Aaron Ekblad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Ekblad<\/a> showed the Stanley Cup his old OHL stomping grounds on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Panthers defenseman brought the trophy to Sadlon Arena, home of the OHL\u2019s Barrie Colts, in Barrie, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Ekblad played for the Colts from 2011-14 before he was drafted by the Panthers with the first overall pick in the 2014 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Stanley Cup champion held a special event at the arena to celebrate with local fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Ekblad showed the Stanley Cup his old OHL stomping grounds on Thursday. The Florida Panthers defenseman brought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-100496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}