{"id":629076,"date":"2026-04-25T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:09:00","slug":"canadiens-legend-cournoyer-carries-torch-in-to-bell-centre-for-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629076\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens legend Cournoyer carries torch in to Bell Centre for Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you need a little extra speed, you go to the Roadrunner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/yvan-cournoyer-8446200\" title=\"Yvan Cournoyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yvan Cournoyer<\/a> , a 10-time Stanley Cup champion forward with the Montreal Canadiens nicknamed &#8220;The Roadrunner&#8221; for his skating speed, carried the team torch into Bell Centre ahead of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference First Round against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens fans were plenty fired up to see Cournoyer, who was inducted in to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1982 after a 16-year career, highlighted by a ridiculous 15-goal, 10-assist performance over 17 games in the 1973 Stanley Cup Playoffs. He captained the Canadiens from 1975-79.<\/p>\n<p>Fans were fired up in general for their team&#8217;s first home playoff game of the 2026 postseason, but when Cournoyer entered the arena and raised the torch, the crowd noise noticeably went up a level, maybe two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you need a little extra speed, you go to the Roadrunner. Yvan Cournoyer , a 10-time Stanley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-629076","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\/629076","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=629076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}