{"id":441972,"date":"2026-01-28T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:32:07","slug":"maple-leafs-honor-sittlers-10-point-game-with-special-pregame-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441972\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs honor Sittler\u2019s 10-point game with special pregame ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sittler\u2019s teammates from the game joined him on the ice. The former Maple Leafs captain sported his No. 27 jersey as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lanny-mcdonald-8449423\" title=\"Lanny McDonald\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lanny McDonald<\/a> and Dave &#8220;Tiger&#8221; Williams presented him with a golden stick to commemorate the achievement.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Famer then performed the ceremonial puck drop between Maple Leafs captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/auston-matthews-8479318\" title=\"Auston Matthews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auston Matthews<\/a> and Sabres forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tage-thompson-8479420\" title=\"Tage Thompson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tage Thompson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a pregame press conference, Sittler shared a special story about his late wife, Wendy, who died in 2001 after a battle with cancer. The Maple Leafs legend said after his wife\u2019s passing he found her ticket stubs from the 10-point game and had them framed. Recently, he took a closer look at the tickets and discovered something special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s in section 50, she\u2019s in seats 13 and 14 [equals 27], Feb. 7 (2\/7) and the price of the ticket, believe it or not, was 10 bucks,\u201d Sittler said in a video posted by the Maple Leafs. \u201cSo, it\u2019s an honor for me to bring Wendy into the equation today. She is such an important part of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sittler\u2019s teammates from the game joined him on the ice. The former Maple Leafs captain sported his No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-441972","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\/441972","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=441972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}