{"id":198648,"date":"2025-10-08T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198648\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:01:07","slug":"mark-giordano-joins-toronto-marlies-as-coaching-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198648\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Giordano joins Toronto Marlies as coaching advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar face will be helping steer the Toronto Marlies this season. <\/p>\n<p>The Toronto native spent 18 years in the league, most of which came with the Calgary Flames, with whom he signed as an undrafted free agent in 2004. <\/p>\n<p>He went on to be selected by the Seattle Kraken in the 2021 expansion draft, but was traded to the Maple Leafs midway through the 2021-22 season. <\/p>\n<p>Though he hasn&#8217;t officially announced his retirement, Giordano hasn&#8217;t laced up since the 2023-24 season, when he played 46 games with the Maple Leafs. <\/p>\n<p>Over his 18 years in the league, Giordano had 158 goals and 419 assists over 1,148 games. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to announcing the Giordano hire, the Maple Leafs brought in Steven Reinprecht and Eric Lacroix as pro scouts, as well as Mikael Kotkaniemi as a European amateur scout. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A familiar face will be helping steer the Toronto Marlies this season. The Toronto native spent 18 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-198648","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\/198648","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=198648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}