{"id":3517,"date":"2015-10-28T18:31:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/rod-stewarts-son-forges-a-name-for-himself-in-hockey\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:31:57","slug":"rod-stewarts-son-forges-a-name-for-himself-in-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/rod-stewarts-son-forges-a-name-for-himself-in-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Stewart’s son forges a name for himself in hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> Rock superstar Rod Stewart is well-known for his love of soccer, especially the Celtic Football Club in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n

Hockey, it turns out, is another matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll he knows is if my team scores. That\u2019s about it,\u201d said his son, Liam Stewart. \u201cI was like, \u2018Dad, that\u2019s all you need to know \u2014 if we win or if we score.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Liam Stewart, 21, is the newest addition to the roster of the Alaska Aces, an ECHL development league team affiliated with the Minnesota Wild of the NHL. The 6-foot-1, 181-pound forward was traded to the Anchorage team from Missouri in early October after playing the past four years for the Spokane Chiefs.<\/p>\n

Liam Stewart was born in London to Rod Stewart and his then-wife, supermodel Rachel Hunter. After the couple split, Liam grew up in the Los Angeles area with his mom.<\/p>\n

He said his famous dad never pushed him to get into soccer, but he still played the sport until he was 13 or 14, when the hockey bug bit him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to play hockey, and that\u2019s what got me here today,\u201d Liam Stewart said during an interview following practice last week at Sullivan Arena in Anchorage.<\/p>\n

Aces head coach Rob Murray said from a coaching standpoint, Liam Stewart\u2019s pedigree is a nonissue.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just another hockey player on my team, and he\u2019s got to do what he needs to do to make us successful,\u201d Murray said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s good news for Liam Stewart, who said he wants to make a name for himself without relying on his parents\u2019 fame or wealth.<\/p>\n

When he played in Spokane, Washington, he wasn\u2019t treated differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was known as \u2018Stewie\u2019 around the rink, like I was just another guy,\u201d Liam Stewart said. \u201cIt was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murray said everyone on the team is trying to forge their own identity, including Dean Chelios, whose father, Chris, was a famous NHL player.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese kids are trying to make it on their own. They\u2019re not worried about who they are or where they came from,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThey all want to be hockey players, and they want to do it on their own merits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liam Stewart and his Aces teammates are still getting to know each other, and that means the other players haven\u2019t been razzing him about his famous parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot yet, at least,\u201d he said, laughing. <\/p>\n

And if it does happen?<\/p>\n

\u201cThat just comes with it, I guess,\u201d Liam Stewart said. \u201cNothing wrong with it. I just laugh about it and, you know, have a good time with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANCHORAGE \u2014 Rock superstar Rod Stewart is well-known for his love of soccer, especially the Celtic Football Club in Glasgow, Scotland. Hockey, it turns out, is another matter. \u201cAll he knows is if my team scores. That\u2019s about it,\u201d said his son, Liam Stewart. \u201cI was like, \u2018Dad, that\u2019s all you need to know \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":3518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}