{"id":14319,"date":"2020-05-06T05:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T08:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14319"},"modified":"2020-05-06T05:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T08:05:15","slug":"lantzs-campbell-signs-with-belgian-hockey-team-liege-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14319","title":{"rendered":"Lantz&#8217;s Campbell signs with Belgian hockey team Liege Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LANTZ:<\/strong> A hockey player from Lantz is getting a fresh start in a new city playing the sport he loves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late April it was announced that Kyle Campbell, a former Cape Breton Eagle, and Quebec Remparts in the QMJHL, had signed to lace them up with the Liege Bulldogs for the 2020-2021 hockey season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bulldogs are a Belgian hockey team that plays in the BeNe League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;36&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, Campbell suited up with Brian\u00e7on in Magnus league in France before finishing the year with Podhale Nowy Targ in the best Polish league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Bulldogs, he will don his familiar no. 71 as he lines up alongside his teammates, who are mostly Belgium born. The team is coached by American Paul Vincent, according to Google and Wikipedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/n21109_kyle-campbell-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14321\"\/><figcaption>Kyle Campbell. (Liege Bulldogs photo off their website)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Campbell explained how his time with the Bulldogs came about in a post published by the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter my last season, I contacted Jessyko Bernard about his arrival in Li\u00e8ge. He had nothing but great things to say about the city, the team and most of all people,\u201d said Campbell in his own words. \u201cAfter talking to a few more people I decided to sign with Li\u00e8ge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He talked about the type of player he was, letting the fans know what to expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a player, I bring a lot of intensity to every game, I will do anything to win for my team,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a solid skater and use my size to my advantage. I am proud to be a leader and strive to help my teammates get better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Campbell is hoping to lead Liege to another championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope with my experience I can help Li\u00e8ge win another championship this season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANTZ: A hockey player from Lantz is getting a fresh start in a new city playing the sport he loves. In late April it was announced that Kyle Campbell, a former Cape Breton Eagle, and Quebec Remparts in the QMJHL, had signed to lace them up with the Liege Bulldogs for the 2020-2021 hockey season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965],"tags":[54,1074,595],"class_list":["post-14319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","tag-hockey","tag-kyle-campbell","tag-lantz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}