{"id":104,"date":"2013-12-01T23:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/?p=104"},"modified":"2013-12-01T23:10:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:10:46","slug":"calgary-hitmen-get-fans-to-toss-25921-stuffed-bears-onto-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/2013\/12\/01\/calgary-hitmen-get-fans-to-toss-25921-stuffed-bears-onto-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Hitmen get fans to toss 25,921 stuffed bears onto ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105\" alt=\"goal\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2013\/12\/goal.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2013\/12\/goal.jpg 630w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2013\/12\/goal-594x367.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2013\/12\/goal-593x367.jpg 593w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2013\/12\/goal-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The annual Teddy Bear Toss game of the Calgary Hitmen can be considered a success after 25.921 stuffed bears hit the ice.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>DRUMROLL PLEASE ~ The official count from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petrocanada\">@petrocanada<\/a> Teddy Bear Toss Game is&#8230;25,921! Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23YYC&amp;src=hash\">#YYC<\/a> fans! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/l7jFQ8e7An\">pic.twitter.com\/l7jFQ8e7An<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Calgary Hitmen (@WHLHitmen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHLHitmen\/statuses\/407323465847296000\">December 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How does it work?<\/p>\n<p>Well its not exactly the first time it has happened but in short fans throw stuffed animals onto the ice after the home team&#8217;s first goal of the game. In this case fans had to wait until the second period when Pavel Padakin scored, ironically for the second season in a row.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HZkRbLMguyQ\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate Padakin even added a snow angel as the stuffed toys flew in from the stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Teddy Bear Toss game of the Calgary Hitmen can be considered a success after 25.921 stuffed bears hit the ice. DRUMROLL PLEASE ~ The official count from the @petrocanada Teddy Bear Toss Game is&#8230;25,921! Thank you #YYC fans! pic.twitter.com\/l7jFQ8e7An \u2014 Calgary Hitmen (@WHLHitmen) December 2, 2013 &nbsp; How does it work? Well its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27,5],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-news","8":"tag-calgary-hitmen","9":"tag-nhl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}