{"id":26444,"date":"2025-07-28T02:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26444\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:41:15","slug":"calgary-flames-weegar-gets-married-to-longtime-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26444\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames&#8217; Weegar gets married to longtime girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wedding season continues in the NHL, and Calgary Flames defenceman MacKenzie Weegar is getting in on the fun.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran defender married his longtime girlfriend, Maggie Wallace, over the weekend, just under two years after the couple got engaged. Weegar shared a photo on his Instagram story showing him and Maggie having their first dance at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2171144\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2171144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screen-Shot-2025-07-27-at-4.11.07-PM.png\" alt=\"Weegar-Flames\" width=\"429\" height=\"700\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2171144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@weegss\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The wedding was well-attended with several of Weegar\u2019s Calgary teammates showing up.<\/p>\n<p>Flames\u2019 Blake Coleman shared a photo on his Instagram story that showed him at the wedding alongside Calgary teammates including Dustin Wolf, Jonathan Huberdeau, Nazem Kadri, Matt Coronato and Ryan Lomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Flames player Jakob Pelletier was also included in the photo.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The boys, checking in for Weegsy&#8217;s wedding!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8: Blake Coleman on IG (bcoles25) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SsjotOgJuw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SsjotOgJuw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Calgary Flames (@NHLFlames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlames\/status\/1949497626547953712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/calgary\/flames-mackenzie-weegar-proposes-girlfriend-banff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The 31-year-old Ottawa native proposed to his new wife<\/a> in September 2023 while the couple was vacationing at the iconic Fairmont Banff Springs hotel. The proposal included a picturesque room filled with rose petals and candles.<\/p>\n<p>It was a match made in heaven as the couple shared the same initials of \u201cMW\u201d before getting married and will continue to do so after sharing their vows.<\/p>\n<p>Weegar has been a leading member of this Flames team ever since his arrival in the summer of 2022. Though the team has struggled throughout his tenure, he has been a very good top-pairing defender for the Flames, posting 20 goals in 2023-24 and 47 points this past season.<\/p>\n<p>His play helped the Flames nearly qualify for a playoff spot this past season, despite preseason expectations that they would be a lottery team.<\/p>\n<p>Trading for him wouldn\u2019t have been a question if it didn\u2019t also involve losing Matthew Tkachuk in a deal with the Florida Panthers. Despite that, the impact that Weegar has had on the Calgary blueline has been immeasurable.<\/p>\n<p>Despite only having played a year in Calgary, Weegar was a popular choice to become the next captain of the Flames in the lead-up to the 2023-24 season. That honour was eventually bestowed on longtime Flames player Mikael Backlund, while Weegar has taken on the role of an assistant in the two seasons since.<\/p>\n<p>With a ring on his finger heading into the new year, Weegar will be looking to help the Flames take their next step towards eventually getting a Stanley Cup ring.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wedding season continues in the NHL, and Calgary Flames defenceman MacKenzie Weegar is getting in on the fun.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-26444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}