{"id":654892,"date":"2026-05-07T05:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654892\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:51:19","slug":"gritty-flyers-ice-team-surprises-passengers-arriving-from-raleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654892\/","title":{"rendered":"Gritty, Flyers ice team surprises passengers arriving from Raleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gritty gave a brotherly welcome to passengers arriving from North Carolina on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Flyers mascot and the team\u2019s ice crew greeted passengers from Raleigh, North Carolina, the home of the Carolina Hurricanes, after they landed at Philadelphia International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>At the gate, Gritty high-fived and waved to passengers as they got off the plane. The ice crew handed out orange beaded necklaces and orange rally towels, including to flight crew members.<\/p>\n<p>Like a true gentleman, Gritty even helped a passenger roll her suitcase throughout the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers will host the Hurricanes for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference First Round at Xfinity Mobile Center on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, SN, TVAS, CBC). Carolina currently leads the series 2-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gritty gave a brotherly welcome to passengers arriving from North Carolina on Wednesday. The Philadelphia Flyers mascot and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-654892","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\/654892","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=654892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}