{"id":32355,"date":"2012-10-11T14:29:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32355"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:29:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:29:41","slug":"veteran-hockey-league-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32355","title":{"rendered":"Veteran hockey league in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erich sends us news that there&#8217;s a veteran hockey league in Tampa, FL looking for new members. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcactionnews.com\/dpp\/news\/region_tampa\/a-newly-created-hockey-league-hopes-to-give-tampa-bay-area-veterans-skate-time-camaraderie-for-free\">ABC local news<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[US Army National Guard Spc. Jim Rathbone] and fellow veteran, Andy Boutilier, created the Veterans Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>The brand new league of 15 players practiced on the Forum ice Wednesday morning. The Lightning also donated their practice jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great opportunity for us to expand on giving back to the community,&#8221; said Dave Andreychuk, VP of Fan and Business Development for the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the veterans called Wednesday&#8217;s practice a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve never been in the Lightning&#8217;s locker room,&#8221; said Boutilier, now the league&#8217;s president. &#8220;They&#8217;ve never been on this ice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except, the fun is about to become a lot more common, because the Lightning plans to allow the men to skate even after the lock out ends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Erich says that they&#8217;ll want to see a DD214 and membership in USA Hockey. <a href=\"http:\/\/veteranshockeyleague.org\/index.html\">Here&#8217;s their website<\/a>, if you&#8217;re interested. I know we get a lot of traffic from Tampa, for some odd reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erich sends us news that there&#8217;s a veteran hockey league in Tampa, FL looking for new &hellip; <a title=\"Veteran hockey league in Tampa\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32355\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veteran hockey league in Tampa<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}