{"id":299313,"date":"2025-11-18T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299313\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:13:07","slug":"larry-brooks-impact-clear-in-outpouring-of-grief-across-the-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299313\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Brooks&#8217; impact clear in outpouring of grief across the NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is one thing I am sure of in the wake of my dear colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/13\/sports\/rip-brooksie-larry-brooks-post-legend-and-hall-of-fame-hockey-writer-dead-at-75\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Brooks\u2019 untimely passing<\/a>: The hockey community mourns deeply.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say other sports and other leagues don\u2019t, but the NHL \u2014 and its small-by-comparison circle \u2014 grieves in a way that is comparable to the way those who have lost a family member do. We are, for the most part, an intimate and passionate bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I\u2019ve seen it again and again since I started covering the league full-time in 2021. The collective outpouring of support is almost always the kind that takes your breath away.<\/p>\n<p>There may have been no better example than Sunday as we said our final goodbyes to Larry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is one thing I am sure of in the wake of my dear colleague Larry Brooks\u2019 untimely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11556,155858,4823,385,4892,99,358],"class_list":["post-299313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-inside-the-rangers","tag-larry-brooks","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299313","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=299313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}