{"id":15625,"date":"2019-06-13T14:27:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=15625"},"modified":"2019-06-13T14:27:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:27:40","slug":"just-thought-smith-was-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/13\/just-thought-smith-was-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"just thought smith was awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/28\/sports\/jordan-binnington-st-louis-blues.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\">&#8220;How a Fourth-String Goalie Led the Blues to the Stanley Cup Finals&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Before becoming an improbable catalyst for <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/22\/sports\/st-louis-blues-stanley-cup-finals.html?module=inline\">the St. Louis Blues\u2019 improbable stampede to the Stanley Cup finals<\/a>, Jordan Binnington had the coolest goalie mask in the E.C.H.L.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">In 2013, he reported to the Kalamazoo Wings, two levels below the N.H.L., with an image of the actor Will Smith \u2014 circa \u201cThe Fresh Prince of Bel Air\u201d days of the early 1990s \u2014 <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2013\/09\/nhl-prospect-has-fresh-prince-goalie-mask\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adorning the left side of his cage<\/a>. His coach, Nick Bootland, expected a fascinating back story \u2014 that Binnington must have met Smith once or something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Nope. Binnington just thought Smith was \u201cawesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from &#8220;How a Fourth-String Goalie Led the Blues to the Stanley Cup Finals&#8221;: Before becoming an improbable catalyst for the St. Louis Blues\u2019 improbable stampede to the Stanley Cup finals, Jordan Binnington had the coolest goalie mask in the E.C.H.L. In 2013, he reported to the Kalamazoo Wings, two levels below the N.H.L., with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15626,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}