{"id":153035,"date":"2025-09-13T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153035\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:55:07","slug":"rangers-roster-hopeful-adam-sykora-out-to-prove-hes-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153035\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers roster hopeful Adam Sykora out to &#8216;prove&#8217; he&#8217;s ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Sykora was named player of the game for Slovakia after a lopsided loss to Canada at the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/25\/sports\/us-honors-johnny-gaudreau-after-iihf-world-championship-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IIHF World Championship<\/a> this summer in Stockholm, Sweden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a tough 7-0 defeat at the hands of the NHL-studded Canadian team, which ultimately played a role in Slovakia failing to qualify for the quarterfinals. But then the 21-year-old forward saw who was coming out to accept the same postgame honors for Canada: Sidney Crosby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sykora had a poster of Crosby on his wall growing up in Pie\u0161tany, Slovakia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, he was taking photos and shaking hands with the Penguins star.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Sykora was named player of the game for Slovakia after a lopsided loss to Canada at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4823,385,99,358],"class_list":["post-153035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153035","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=153035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}