{"id":786939,"date":"2026-07-08T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786939\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:30:18","slug":"wednesdays-ftb-day-66-of-the-chayka-era-turned-out-weirder-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786939\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday&#8217;s FTB: Day 66 of the Chayka era turned out weirder than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo-1589830258006-f91b5cb1eab5.jpeg\" alt=\"Wednesday's FTB: Day 66 of the Chayka era turned out weirder than expected\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@instinktual?utm_source=ghost&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=api-credit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morten Andreassen<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=ghost&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=api-credit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, no, the Leafs hired the enemy! Maybe they can trade for Ridly Greig, hire Arturs Irbe and sign a bunch of Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning players. <\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, there&#8217;s not that many things the Leafs have left before the long, hot summer. It will be fun when training camp starts and everyone remembers Alfie is here. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pensionplanpuppets.com\/daniel-alfredsson-defects-to-the-maple-leafs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Alfredsson defects to the Maple Leafs<\/p>\n<p>Word is he was smuggled out of Ottawa in an Uber.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/34\/01\/3401a938-f468-4c02-a227-9bc4cc09bad4\/content\/images\/thumbnail\/photo-1641122669951-3e2aff778d3b-78396344-f080-4359-8df1-47932263113a\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And as mentioned, every hire has a bro who knows him on the Leafs staff. Usually Jim Hiller, or in Alfie&#8217;s case (I&#8217;m going to keep calling him that to annoy people) a bro of a bro. <\/p>\n<p>With John Gruden moving up to the Leafs bench, someone has to take over the Marlies, we&#8217;ll see who that is. <\/p>\n<p>In other news, not that there is any much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/senators-confirm-signing-of-claude-giroux\/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Senators confirm signing of Claude Giroux<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/34\/01\/3401a938-f468-4c02-a227-9bc4cc09bad4\/content\/images\/thumbnail\/Giroux-89764053-83f7-4c89-a135-1ee0e04149d5.jpg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\"\/><\/a><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/ahl\/article\/ahls-hamilton-hammers-introduce-jay-mckee-as-head-coach-unveil-jerseys\/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>AHL\u2019s Hamilton Hammers introduce Jay McKee as head coach, unveil jerseys<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/34\/01\/3401a938-f468-4c02-a227-9bc4cc09bad4\/content\/images\/thumbnail\/ahl-hamilton-62e5e511-26c5-418c-959e-44d8c02c0074.jpg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now, who knows what Chayka will do, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Morten Andreassen \/ Unsplash Oh, no, the Leafs hired the enemy! Maybe they can trade for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-786939","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\/786939","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=786939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}