{"id":202436,"date":"2025-10-10T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202436\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:35:08","slug":"maple-leafs-players-visit-covenant-house-toronto-for-canadian-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202436\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs players visit Covenant House Toronto for Canadian Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; When he was a wee lad watching his famous hockey father handle the spotlight in hockey-crazed Toronto, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/max-domi-8477503\" title=\"Max Domi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Domi<\/a> learned a lot more from dad Tie than just how to stickhandle or shoot a puck.<\/p>\n<p>As the Toronto Maple Leafs forward admitted Thursday, he was also taught humility and how to give back to the community.<\/p>\n<p>More than two decades later, there was Max alongside teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/william-nylander-8477939\" title=\"William Nylander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Nylander<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/simon-benoit-8481122\" title=\"Simon Benoit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Benoit<\/a> signing autographs and serving meals to hundreds of youths as part of the team\u2019s annual Thanksgiving weekend visit to Covenant House in downtown Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>For Max, whose father Tie played for the Maple Leafs from 1995-2006, helping out in this way was a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I used to come to these events with my pops back when he played,\u201d Domi said. \u201cSo now it\u2019s come full circle, and it\u2019s pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Domi said he and his teammates were glad to lend a hand just one day after they\u2019d defeated the Montreal Canadiens 5-2 in their 2025-26 season opener at Scotiabank Arena on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only live 10 minutes away, and it\u2019s great to make a difference any way you can,\u201d he said. \u201cJust to see someone smile when they see you makes my day, and I\u2019m really enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were certainly plenty of those on this day, a precursor to Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. And with good reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8212; When he was a wee lad watching his famous hockey father handle the spotlight in hockey-crazed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-202436","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\/202436","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=202436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}