{"id":100,"date":"2008-02-24T22:30:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T03:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/hockey-stuff\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T22:30:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T03:30:34","slug":"hockey-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/hockey-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10174550@N05\/2290495608\/\" title=\"feb 24th 2002 salt lake gold by warwalker_2000, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3148\/2290495608_83acbabbf6_m.jpg\" alt=\"feb 24th 2002 salt lake gold\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>A couple of things, really quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One, I can&#8217;t let this day go by without observing that it is the sixth anniversary of that day in Salt Lake City when Canada triumphantly\u00a0reclaimed Men&#8217;s Olympic Hockey Gold after a loooooong drought, by beating a game, but overmatched,\u00a0U.S. team.\u00a0 That&#8217;s us (in the picture to the left), singing &#8216;O Canada&#8217; (badly out of key) at the Black Swan on Danforth Ave. in Toronto, as the final seconds ticked off the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Two, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/news_story\/?ID=230511&amp;hubname=\" title=\"Mats says \"no go\".\">TSN is reporting <\/a>that Mats Sundin has announced he will <em>not<\/em> waive his no-trade clause and will be staying put as the Captain of the Maple Leafs.\u00a0 Leaf fans, it says here, should cut Captain Class some slack and respect his decision.\u00a0 He&#8217;s earned the right to choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of things, really quickly. <\/p>\n<p>One, I can&#8217;t let this day go by without observing that it is the sixth anniversary of that day in Salt Lake City when Canada triumphantly reclaimed Men&#8217;s Olympic Hockey Gold after a loooooong drought, by beating a game, but overmatched, U.S. team. That&#8217;s us (in the picture [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,8,11],"tags":[62,59,61,58,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}