{"id":23862,"date":"2025-07-25T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23862\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:24:08","slug":"ex-edmonton-oilers-player-makes-surprise-skating-cameo-with-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23862\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Edmonton Oilers player makes surprise skating cameo with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton Oilers fans probably weren\u2019t exactly expecting to see one of their former players in a recent Travis Kelce photo dump.<\/p>\n<p>But on a random Thursday night in July \u2014 a little over two years after Kelce and Taylor Swift were first linked \u2014 that\u2019s exactly what ended up happening.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Kelce and Swift being maybe the world\u2019s most famous couple, he\u2019d never actually posted a photo with her himself on Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMgXbQ0yWqW\/?img_index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">with the Thursday post<\/a> being his \u201chard launch\u201d of an already very public relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Deep in the post that Kelce captioned as \u201cadventures this offseason,\u201d former Oilers forward Jarret Stoll was pictured alongside the duo, as was his wife, ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LA KINGS MENTIONED <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8: @\/killatrav on IG <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1MrCZqwaQT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1MrCZqwaQT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LA Kings (@LAKings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAKings\/status\/1948507515056275763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports suggest that the photos could\u2019ve been taken at the Yellowstone Club in Montana during a March visit, which lines up with the winter weather.<\/p>\n<p>In the same winter outfit, Kelce and Swift are seen on skates, making it a safe assumption that they probably asked their NHL friend for guidance or even faced off against him.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce and his older brother, Jason, have spoken openly of their love of hockey many times, having played the sport growing up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Stoll had 59 goals and 106 assists in 286 games for the Oilers, playing parts of five seasons for the team from the 2002-03 season through 2007-08. He was also a member of the 2006 Stanley Cup Final team, suiting up in 24 contests for the team during the playoffs that year.<\/p>\n<p>In the photos shared alongside Swift and Kelce, however, he\u2019s repping a Los Angeles Kings hat, having played seven seasons for the team after leaving Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>Other ties between Swift and the Oilers<\/p>\n<p>This Instagram post isn\u2019t Swift\u2019s first time seeing herself in the headlines regarding the Edmonton Oilers this year.<\/p>\n<p>There was her and Kelce\u2019s surprise appearance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/taylor-swift-makes-surprise-appearance-at-stanley-cup-final\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stanley Cup Final<\/a>, as well as an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wyshynski\/status\/1933309766564032549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">infamous photo with her and former Oilers forward Jeff Skinner<\/a> during her 2013 Red Tour that recirculated throughout the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>You might also like:<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/toronto\/blue-jays-bichette-toronto-thoughts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blue Jays&#8217; Bo Bichette reveals his thoughts on staying in Toronto<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/edmonton\/16-players-milestones-oilers-next-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">16 players can hit career milestones with Edmonton Oilers next season<\/a><br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers fans probably weren\u2019t exactly expecting to see one of their former players in a recent Travis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-23862","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\/23862","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=23862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}