{"id":231448,"date":"2025-10-17T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231448\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:08:10","slug":"were-all-hendrix-lapierre-about-the-vincent-iorio-waiver-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231448\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re all Hendrix Lapierre about the Vincent Iorio waiver claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vicent-iorio-hendrix-lapierre-sad.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"A photo of Vincent Iorio beside a sad face from Hendrix Lapierre\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Iorio <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/10\/16\/vincent-iorio-claimed-nhl-waivers-san-jose-sharks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was claimed off waivers by the San Jose Sharks on Thursday<\/a>, ending, at least for now, the second-round pick\u2019s tenure with the Capitals after four seasons in the organization.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one person who took the news harder than anyone else on the Capitals, Hendrix Lapierre would be the guy. A longtime teammate of Iorio\u2019s in the minors, Lapierre posted a sad face emoji on his Instagram Story along with a goodbye post from the Hershey Bears shortly after the news broke at 2 pm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-560726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hendrix-lapierre-ig-story.jpg\" alt=\"Hendrix Lapierre Instagram Story\" width=\"1179\" height=\"2088\"  \/>Screenshot: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lapierreh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@lapierreh\/Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lapierre\u2019s sadness is well-founded. Lapierre began his professional career with the Hershey Bears at the same time as Iorio. The <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2023\/02\/07\/hendrix-lapierre-and-vincent-iorio-hope-their-close-friendship-will-help-them-become-part-of-the-new-capitals-core-in-the-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two were roommates there<\/a>, dedicating much of their off-ice time to improving and reaching the NHL together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-438350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hendrix-lapierre-vincent-iorio.jpg\" alt=\"Hendrix Lapierre and Vincent Iorio\" width=\"1342\" height=\"794\"  \/>\ud83d\udcf8: Ian Oland\/RMNB<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we talked for the first time at Canada\u2019s World Junior Camp,\u201d Lapierre <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2023\/02\/07\/hendrix-lapierre-and-vincent-iorio-hope-their-close-friendship-will-help-them-become-part-of-the-new-capitals-core-in-the-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told RMNB in 2023<\/a>. \u201cI knew Vinny was a draft pick of the Capitals, so I introduced myself and he introduced himself too, and we kind of clicked from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe share the same mindset in a way,\u201d Iorio added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The skaters both played crucial parts in the Hershey Bears winning back-to-back Calder Cup championships in 2023 and 2024. And like an old married couple, they could seemingly complete each other\u2019s sentences.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>While Iorio didn\u2019t have much of an NHL future in Washington, he will now be able to live out his dream with the Sharks. And while that\u2019s great, it doesn\u2019t completely take the sting, or I guess bite, out of it.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB Vincent Iorio was claimed off waivers by the San Jose Sharks on Thursday, ending, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-231448","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\/231448","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=231448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}