{"id":162271,"date":"2025-09-22T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162271\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:30:10","slug":"sabres-welcome-comedy-icon-sandler-gift-personalized-character-jerseys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162271\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres welcome comedy icon Sandler, gift personalized character jerseys"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Happy Gilmore 2” was one of Netflix’s biggest movies of the year, drawing nearly 50 million viewers.<\/p>\n

Sandler, a well-known sports fanatic, might wear a Boston Bruins jersey in the movies but on Sunday was presented with an alternative — a black Sabres retro jersey with “Gilmore” and No. 18 on the back. Sabres players also gifted him a blue Buffalo Bills jersey with “Boucher” and No. 9, a nod to Sandler’s 1998 smash hit “The Waterboy” and a Buffalo Bandits lacrosse sweater with “Sandman” and No. 1 on the back.<\/p>\n

Sandler has hit a few NHL arenas on his tour and even made an appearance at the 2025 NHL Draft, announcing the Bruins pick as Gilmore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Happy Gilmore 2” was one of Netflix’s biggest movies of the year, drawing nearly 50 million viewers. Sandler,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-162271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}