{"id":74500,"date":"2026-01-14T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=74500"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:06:20","slug":"j-c-newman-celebrates-tampa-bay-lightnings-jon-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/j-c-newman-celebrates-tampa-bay-lightnings-jon-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"J.C. Newman Celebrates Tampa Bay Lightning\u2019s Jon Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated Jon Cooper\u2019s 1,000th game as the team\u2019s head coach.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>At the request of his assistant coaches, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. rolled 1,000 special cigars to commemorate the milestone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>After the Lightning\u2019s 4-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche, the team presented the cigars and a custom cigar humidor to Cooper.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u201cWe are very proud to be a partner and exclusive cigar maker of the Tampa Bay Lightning,\u201d said fourth-generation owner Drew Newman.\u00a0 \u201cAs Tampa is \u2018Cigar City,\u2019 it is only fitting the coaches decided to celebrate Coop\u2019s 1,000th game by lighting special Tampa Bay Lightning cigars.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cooper is the fifth coach in NHL history to coach the same team for 1,000 games and is the longest tenured head coach in the NHL.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>An avid cigar enthusiast, Cooper told <i>Cigar Aficionado<\/i><i> <\/i>that he began enjoying cigars when the team started winning championships.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI equated cigars to winning and I haven\u2019t stopped,\u201d he said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hockey fans can light a cigar at J.C. Newman\u2019s Diamond Crown Cigar Lounge inside the Lightning\u2019s Benchmark Arena.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hockey fans can light a cigar at J.C. Newman\u2019s Diamond Crown Cigar Lounge inside the Lightning\u2019s Benchmark Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":74501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,55,2812,44],"tags":[6635,10013],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74592,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74500\/revisions\/74592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}