{"id":482596,"date":"2024-05-01T20:08:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T00:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482596"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:10:35","slug":"tampa-bay-manager-cooper-apologizes-for-skirt-comment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tampa-bay-manager-cooper-apologizes-for-skirt-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay manager Cooper apologizes for skirt comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Lightning boss Jon Cooper began his end-of-campaign news conference today by apologizing for making what he called an inappropriate analogy about putting skirts on goaltenders.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Respect that Jon Cooper opened by addressing this. He\u2019s always been great to deal with, so his comment surprised me. Addressing it head on, with sincerity, is the right approach.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yY9aZ08fBx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yY9aZ08fBx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rachel Doerrie (@racheldoerrie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/racheldoerrie\/status\/1785714674958303628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the Game 5 defeat that eliminated the Bolts from the postseason at the beginning of the week, Jon vented about 2 questionable goalie interference rulings that led to the Panthers\u2019 6-1 victory. Tampa Bay had 2 goals disallowed when the league situation room deemed a player interfered with Sergei Bobrovsky in both episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL\u2019s longest-tenured manager claimed he was sincerely regretful about his comment as a father of 2 daughters who play sports and as a fan of women\u2019s hockey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s 1 of those episodes. If you could just reach back and grab the words, I would do it without a doubt,&#8221; the Lightning head coach shared. &#8220;To be honest, I made a mistake, and I&#8217;ve got to go and explain myself to my daughters. &#8230; I sincerely apologize for causing trouble. It is even worse than the actual matchup defeat itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Lightning boss Jon Cooper began his end-of-campaign news conference today by apologizing for making what he called an inappropriate analogy about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482597,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,17164],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[22893,18408,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Lightning head coach apologized for the goalie skirt comment.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482598,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482596\/revisions\/482598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482596"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482596"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}