{"id":16653,"date":"2017-03-03T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T10:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=16653"},"modified":"2017-03-03T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T10:45:45","slug":"cup-final-fever-for-cardiff-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cup-final-fever-for-cardiff-devils\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup final fever for Cardiff Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ice hockey fans in Cardiff are in for a treat this weekend as the Challenge Cup Final is hosted in the Ice Arena Wales for the first time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Cardiff Devils will be playing against the Sheffield Steelers at 4pm on Sunday. \u00a0They reached the final after beating the Belfast Giants 5-1 in the semis.<\/p>\n<table class=\" alignright\" width=\"357\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"141\">Cardiff Devils<\/td>\n<td width=\"14\">5<\/td>\n<td width=\"21\">11<\/td>\n<td width=\"141\">Coventry Blaze<\/td>\n<td width=\"40\">LOST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cardiff Devils<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Coventry Blaze<\/td>\n<td>WON<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cardiff Devils<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Nottingham Panthers<\/td>\n<td>LOST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cardiff Devils<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Sheffield Steelers<\/td>\n<td>WON<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cardiff Devils<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Nottingham Panthers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>LOST<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Challenge Cup is the main cup competition for professional ice hockey teams in the UK.The Devils have a mixed history in the tournament.They won the cup in 2006 and 2015 but they&#8217;ve also lost in the final three times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is the first time the final has been held in the Ice Arena Wales. \u00a0The IAW was announced as the host venue in August and it&#8217;s the first time the match has been held in Cardiff since the single match final format was introduced. \u00a0The 3,000 arena opened in 2016 and the match is a sellout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice hockey fans in Cardiff are in for a treat this weekend as the Challenge Cup Final is hosted in the Ice Arena Wales for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,11,1],"tags":[1288,1287,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16653"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16679,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653\/revisions\/16679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}