{"id":1892288,"date":"2026-07-14T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892288"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:04:11","slug":"a-ping-pong-ball-could-have-changed-the-course-of-hurricanes-history-forever-in-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892288","title":{"rendered":"A ping pong ball could have changed the course of Hurricanes history forever in 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canes missed out on the top pick in 2003 despite owning the NHL&#8217;s worst record, but what if the outcome of that lottery drawing had gone their way?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiaccane.com\/a-ping-pong-ball-could-have-changed-course-of-hurricanes-history-forever-in-2003?utm_source=RSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canes missed out on the top pick in 2003 despite owning the NHL&#8217;s worst record, but what if the outcome of that lottery drawing had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canes","wpcat-89-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892290,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892288\/revisions\/1892290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}