{"id":398620,"date":"2026-01-08T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398620\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:24:07","slug":"winnipeg-jets-postpone-apres-ski-themed-promotion-after-deadly-swiss-ski-resort-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398620\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets postpone &#8216;apres ski&#8217;-themed promotion after deadly Swiss ski resort fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Jets are postponing a ski-related promotion in the wake of a deadly fire at a ski resort in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The National Hockey League team had planned an &#8220;apres-ski&#8221;-themed night for its home game against the Los Angeles Kings on Friday. The first 5,000 fans were to receive ski goggles.<\/p>\n<p>However, the club says it is pushing back the event to March 10, in recognition of the people killed and injured in a bar fire at a New Year&#8217;s party in Switzerland. <\/p>\n<p>Friday is a national day of mourning in Switzerland for the 40 people killed and 120 injured.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe sparkling candles in champagne bottles started the fire in the resort town of Crans-Montana, Switzerland, when they came too close to the bar&#8217;s ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Jets lineup includes Nino Niederreiter, a Swiss forward whose career has included stints with Nashville, Carolina, Minnesota and the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We join the world in honouring those lost and send our condolences to everyone affected,&#8221; the team said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/jets\/news\/statement-apres-ski-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a<\/a> statement  issued on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-398620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398620","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=398620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}