{"id":44896,"date":"2020-03-11T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/t-birds-to-play-next-2-games-without-fans-at-showare\/"},"modified":"2020-03-14T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T19:05:28","slug":"t-birds-to-play-next-2-games-without-fans-at-showare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/t-birds-to-play-next-2-games-without-fans-at-showare\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Hockey League, Thunderbirds season put on ice; officials suspend play, for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western Hockey League Commissioner Ron Robison announced Thursday the 2019-20 WHL season will be paused until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Following consultation with medical professionals and meetings with the CHL Board of Directors, it was determined that all hockey activity in the WHL will be paused until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Following a conference call with the WHL Board of Governors, the Western Hockey League is announcing today that it will pause the 2019-20 WHL season, effective immediately,&rdquo; said WHL Commissioner Ron Robison. &ldquo;The WHL takes the safety of our players, officials, staff, fans, and everyone associated with the WHL very seriously. We will continue to monitor ongoing public health developments regarding COVID-19. Our goal is to return to play when it is safe and reasonable to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We thank WHL fans and partners for your patience and understanding as we navigate this unprecedented time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Thunderbirds dropped a 3-2 decision to the Everett Silvertips on Sunday night at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds (24-32-4-3, 55 points) and are in the second wild-card playoff spot in the Western Conference. The T-Birds are nine points behind the Kelowna Rockets (29-27-3-3, 64 points) for the first wild-card playoff spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Hockey League Commissioner Ron Robison announced Thursday the 2019-20 WHL season will be paused until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44896"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}