{"id":89834,"date":"2025-07-24T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89834\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:07:09","slug":"jones-celebrates-day-with-stanley-cup-at-community-hockey-rink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89834\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones celebrates day with Stanley Cup at community hockey rink"},"content":{"rendered":"

IRVING, Texas —<\/strong> For Seth Jones<\/a>, there was no other place he wanted to spend his day with the Stanley Cup than at his local rink in the Dallas area.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old defenseman capped his 12th NHL season by winning his first Stanley Cup championship with the Florida Panthers after being acquired in a trade from the Chicago Blackhawks on March 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family is here. This is where I call home in the summertime when I\u2019m not in Florida. I skate here, do a lot of things around this area. This is the place I wanted to come back to,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI\u2019ll take [the Stanley Cup] to the golf course, I\u2019ll do a little party with some friends and family tonight. The best part about winning the Cup is getting to share it with the people that care about you and have been with you through that process of getting to where you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones spent nearly two hours on Thursday at the Children\u2019s Health StarCenter Valley Ranch, a community rink in the Dallas area, taking pictures with youth hockey players and their parents, signing jerseys, Crocs, sneakers, player cards, pucks, and even filming a TikTok with a Miss Texas pageant winner who plays on one of the girls teams at the rink.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent a lot of time here for a lot of different coaches, lot of different teams,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWithout the development of Texas youth hockey and the growth that we\u2019ve seen over the last 10, 15 years, I know I wouldn\u2019t be standing here today. I wanted to give back, show the kids here that just because it\u2019s not a huge hockey market, things are still possible. You can still make the NHL.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVING, Texas — For Seth Jones, there was no other place he wanted to spend his day with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-89834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114910727201790314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}