“As The Royal Canadian Legion marks its 100th anniversary, we are deeply honored to be recognized through this year’s Memorial Cup tribute,” Dominion President of The Royal Canadian Legion\u00a0Berkley Lawrence said. “This jersey is a powerful symbol of remembrance, service, and the enduring legacy of Canada’s veterans. We are grateful to the Canadian Hockey League for continuing this meaningful tradition, and for helping ensure that the sacrifices of those who served are never forgotten.”<\/p>\n
The jerseys are available for auction at CHL.ca\/auctions<\/a>, with bidding closing at 11 a.m. ET on Monday.<\/p>\n Kelowna wore the jerseys in its 5-0 loss to Kitchener on May 22. Kelowna had eight NHL draft picks in its lineup, including forward Tij Iginla<\/a>, selected by the Utah Mammoth with the No. 6 pick of the 2024 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n Also playing were forwards\u00a0Vojtech\u00a0Cihar<\/a> (Los Angeles Kings), Hiroki Gojsic<\/a> (Nashville Predators), Hayden Paupanekis<\/a> (Montreal Canadiens), Tomas Poletin<\/a> (New York Islanders) and\u00a0Carson\u00a0Wetsch<\/a> (San Jose Sharks), and defensemen Parker Alcos<\/a> (Vancouver Canucks) and Peyton Kettles<\/a> (Pittsburgh Penguins).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“As The Royal Canadian Legion marks its 100th anniversary, we are deeply honored to be recognized through this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-696218","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\/696218","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=696218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}