{"id":1932072,"date":"2026-09-09T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1932072"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:54:51","slug":"hockey-player-and-coach-turned-broadcaster-barry-melrose-dies-at-age-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1932072","title":{"rendered":"Hockey player and coach-turned-broadcaster Barry Melrose dies at age 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Melrose, a hockey player-turned-coach who led the Los Angeles Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final before going on to a long career in broadcasting the sport, has died. He was 70.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/9be7c-hockey-player-and-coach-turned-broadcaster-barry-melrose-dies-at-age-70\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Melrose, a hockey player-turned-coach who led the Los Angeles Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final before going on to a long career in broadcasting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1932073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1932072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932072","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=1932072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932074,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932072\/revisions\/1932074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1932072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1932072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1932072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}