{"id":429488,"date":"2026-01-24T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429488\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:22:07","slug":"maple-leafs-play-tribute-video-for-marner-in-return-with-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429488\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs play tribute video for Marner in return with Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs welcomed back Vegas Golden Knights forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mitchell-marner-8478483\" title=\"Mitch Marner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Marner<\/a> with a tribute video at Scotiabank Arena on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>During a stoppage of play in the first period, the Maple Leafs played a tribute video to Marner&#8217;s nine seasons in Toronto, highlighting his 741 points in 657 games with the franchise, as well as his many off the ice charitable endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>Marner, a native of Markham, Ontario, just about 30 minutes north of Toronto, was drafted by the Maple Leafs with the fourth pick of the 2015 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>As the video played, fans applauded as Marner waved in recognition to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Marner spent his first nine NHL seasons with the Maple Leafs. He made three All-Star games and was named to the All-Rookie Team in 2017. He was dealt to the Golden Knights in a sign-and-trade move back in June which sent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicolas-roy-8478462\" title=\"Nicolas Roy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Roy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs welcomed back Vegas Golden Knights forward Mitch Marner with a tribute video at Scotiabank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-429488","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\/429488","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=429488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}