{"id":69176,"date":"2024-04-22T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/six-former-kent-based-thunderbirds-in-stanley-cup-playoffs-list\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T20:46:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T03:46:49","slug":"six-former-kent-based-thunderbirds-in-stanley-cup-playoffs-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/six-former-kent-based-thunderbirds-in-stanley-cup-playoffs-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven former Kent-based Thunderbirds in Stanley Cup playoffs | List | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven former Kent-based Seattle Thunderbirds players are participating in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs that began April 20.<\/p>\n<p>The seven are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Matthew Rempe, right wing, New York Rangers: Played with T-Birds from 2019-2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Mathew Barzal, center, New York Islanders: Played with T-Birds from 2013 to 2017 and helped them win the Western Hockey League (WHL) title in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Ethan Bear, defenseman, Washington Capitals: Played with T-Birds from 2013 to 2017 and helped them win WHL title in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Keegan Kolesar, right wing, Vegas Golden Knights: Played with T-Birds 2013 to 2017 and helped them win 2017 WHL championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Shea Theodore, defenseman, Vegas Golden Knights: Played with T-Birds 2010 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Calvin Pickard, goalie, Edmonton Oilers: Played with T-Birds 2008 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Brenden Dillon, defenseman, Winnipeg Jets: Played with T-Birds 2007 to 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong>: Kolesar and Theodore played on Vegas&rsquo; Stanley Cup champions in 2022-2023. &#8230;The T-Birds moved to the ShoWare Center in Kent in 2009 from the KeyArena in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editor&rsquo;s note<\/strong>: This story has been updated to include Matthew Rempe.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barzal, Bear and Kolesar helped lead Seattle to Western Hockey League title in 2017 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":69177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-69176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69176"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69176"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=69176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}