{"id":74957,"date":"2026-02-03T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=74957"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:51:41","slug":"j-c-newman-celebrates-nhls-stadium-series-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/j-c-newman-celebrates-nhls-stadium-series-game\/","title":{"rendered":"J.C. Newman Celebrates NHL\u2019s Stadium Series Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In near freezing weather, the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Boston Bruins 6-5 at Raymond James Stadium as part of the NHL\u2019s Stadium Series. At the request of the Lightning, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. created a custom Stadium Series Diamond Crown Humidor that the Lightning presented to the NHL Commissioner to welcome him to Tampa. The humidor was filled with 100 Diamond Crown Classic cigars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWe are very proud to be a partner and exclusive cigar maker of the Tampa Bay Lightning,\u201d said fourth-generation owner Drew Newman.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAs a Tampa is \u2018Cigar City,\u2019 it is only fitting for the Lightning to welcome Commissioner Bettman to Tampa with a beautiful Diamond Crown Humidor and Diamond Crown cigars.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Lightning Head Coach Jon Cooper and his assistant coaches wore outfits that <span class=\"s3\">paid homage to Tampa\u2019s Ybor City<\/span> historic cigar district. After defeating the Bruins, the coaches lit victory cigars and smoked them as they exited the stadium. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Hockey fans can light a cigar at J.C. Newman\u2019s Diamond Crown Cigar Lounge inside the Lightning\u2019s Benchmark International Arena.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A <span class=\"s3\">review by <i>Cigar Aficionado<\/i><\/span><i> <\/i>noted that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cthe lounge is unique because it\u2019s the only space in an NHL arena where you can smoke a cigar and watch all the hockey action at the same time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This is a one-of-a-kind custom humidor and is not commercially available.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Custom Stadium Series Humidor Presented to the NHL Commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":74958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[441,49,2812,44],"tags":[2794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957"}],"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=74957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74960,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957\/revisions\/74960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}