{"id":602,"date":"2012-04-13T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonypioppi.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2012-04-13T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T16:08:21","slug":"15th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-the-hartford-whalers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/blog\/602\/15th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-the-hartford-whalers","title":{"rendered":"15th Anniversary of the Death of the Hartford Whalers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hartford Whalers played their last game on April 13, 1997, beating the Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1. Captain Kevin Dineen scored the game-winner. Dineen, one of the all-time great Whalers, had been traded to the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1991-92 season then deal back during the 1995-96 season.<\/p>\n<p>I was at the game in Hartford. I had covered the Whalers from 1988 to 1995 for the Middletown Press and was graciously given press box access even after I was &#8220;reassigned&#8221; out of the sports department thanks to a spiteful editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hartford Whalers played their last game on April 13, 1997, beating the Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1. Captain Kevin Dineen&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/blog\/602\/15th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-the-hartford-whalers\" title=\"Read15th Anniversary of the Death of the Hartford Whalers\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[404457,404566],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-hartford-whalers","tag-kevin-dineen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}