{"id":1939635,"date":"2026-10-22T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939635"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:52:17","slug":"former-nhl-player-ron-duguay-dies-at-69-after-a-bout-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939635","title":{"rendered":"Former NHL player Ron Duguay dies at 69 after a bout with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Duguay, who played nearly 1,000 games in the NHL from the late 1970s through the \u201880s, has died of cancer. He was 69. A New York Rangers spokesperson says Duguay&#8217;s family informed the team of his death. Duguay played his first six seasons with the Rangers after they selected him with the 13th&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/c50f2-former-nhl-player-ron-duguay-dies-at-69-after-a-bout-with-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Duguay, who played nearly 1,000 games in the NHL from the late 1970s through the \u201880s, has died of cancer. He was 69. A New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1939636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116,120,121],"class_list":["post-1939635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-madrid","tag-pakistan","tag-lanka","tag-odi","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939635","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=1939635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939637,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939635\/revisions\/1939637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}