{"id":323950,"date":"2025-12-04T02:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323950\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T02:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:40:11","slug":"canadiens-honor-markov-with-pregame-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323950\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens honor Markov with pregame ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crowd then broke into an \u201cOle! Ole!\u201d chant and Sonya hugged Markov, who couldn\u2019t help but crack a smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, it\u2019s a big honor to be here tonight,\u201d Markov said to the fans. \u201cWhen I came to Montreal 25 years ago, I didn\u2019t know what to expect. What I found was a city that welcomed me, a team that became my family, and fans that support us every single night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all my teammates, my coaches, and staff, thank you for making me a better person and a better player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans kept standing throughout the entirety of Markov\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crowd then broke into an \u201cOle! Ole!\u201d chant and Sonya hugged Markov, who couldn\u2019t help but crack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-323950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323950","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=323950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}