{"id":420788,"date":"2026-01-22T00:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/420788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:56:22","slug":"brandon-saad-says-hockey-is-a-family-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/420788\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Saad says hockey is a family affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 City National Arena isn&#8217;t just a place where the Vegas Golden Knights practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">On this week&#8217;s edition of Nights in the Morning, sports reporter Alex Eschelman sits down with one Guy in Gold who tells us it&#8217;s home to more than just the players. <\/p>\n<p>Knights in the Morning: Brandon Saad says hockey is a family affair<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour kiddos also practice here in their junior hockey league. What is it like to share the same ice with them?&#8221; Alex asked winger Brandon Saad. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty special,&#8221; Saad said. &#8220;We have family skates here; I get to skate with them, but even my son is on the Petro boys team and Hertl\u2019s team. It\u2019s amazing being at the same rink and seeing the kids play together and kind of coming full circle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho\u2019s the most competitive hockey dad and who\u2019s the most laid back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlex is coaching the team, so maybe I\u2019ll give him the most competitive since he\u2019s doing that, but I think everyone is pretty relaxed and laid back, they\u2019re still pretty young so it\u2019s just fun to watch,&#8221; Saad said.<\/p>\n<p>The Vegas Golden Knights travel to Boston to face the Bruins on Thursday at 4 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 City National Arena isn&#8217;t just a place where the Vegas Golden Knights practice. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[3504,3505,3506,149,5317,5,3507,3508,3509,3510,3511,285,4,3512,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-420788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-13-action-news","9":"tag-channel-13","10":"tag-go-knights-go","11":"tag-golden-knights","12":"tag-goldenknights","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-hockey-in-las-vegas","15":"tag-hockey-in-vegas","16":"tag-ktnv-tv-channel-13","17":"tag-las-vegas-hockey","18":"tag-las-vegas-sports","19":"tag-national-hockey-league","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-in-las-vegas","22":"tag-vegas","23":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","24":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115936033921335749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}