{"id":507684,"date":"2026-03-01T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:32:26","slug":"tom-wilson-and-logan-thompson-honored-during-pregame-ceremony-held-for-canadian-olympic-medalists-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507684\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Wilson and Logan Thompson honored during pregame ceremony held for Canadian Olympic medalists in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Saturday night\u2019s game between the Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals, the Caps saw their Olympic medalists, <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Tom Wilson&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/tom-wilson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a> and <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Logan Thompson&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/logan-thompson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Thompson<\/a>, receive some special recognition in front of a sold-out Bell Centre crowd of 20,962.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens held a pregame ceremony to honor some of Canada\u2019s Olympic heroes, including Wilson, Thompson, and Montreal\u2019s own <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Nick Suzuki&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/nick-suzuki\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Suzuki<\/a>, who all won silver medals for their country in men\u2019s ice hockey.<\/p>\n<p>The three were joined on the ice by eight other Canadian medalists, including two Olympic champions, Steven Dubois and Mika\u00ebl Kingsbury.<\/p>\n<p>All of the Olympians, including Wilson and Thompson, were greeted by loud cheers and applause from Canadiens fans.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Olympians honored on 2\/28 at Bell Centre<\/p>\n<p>Dana\u00e9 Blais (bronze) \u2013 short track speed skating<br \/>\nWilliam Dandjinou (silver) \u2013 short track speed skating<br \/>\nFelix Roussel (silver) \u2013 short track speed skating<br \/>\nFlorence Brunelle (bronze, silver) \u2013 short track speed skating<br \/>\nKim Boutin (bronze, silver) \u2013 short track speed skating<br \/>\nCourtney Sarault (2x silver, 2x bronze) \u2013 short track speed skating<br \/>\nSteven Dubois (gold, silver) \u2013 short track speed skating<br \/>\nMika\u00ebl Kingsbury (gold, silver) \u2013 freestyle skiing<br \/>\n<a class=\"player\" title=\"View Tom Wilson&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/tom-wilson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a> (silver) \u2013 men\u2019s ice hockey<br \/>\n<a class=\"player\" title=\"View Logan Thompson&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/logan-thompson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Thompson<\/a> (silver) \u2013 men\u2019s ice hockey<br \/>\n<a class=\"player\" title=\"View Nick Suzuki&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/nick-suzuki\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Suzuki<\/a> (silver) \u2013 men\u2019s ice hockey<\/p>\n<p>Canada collected 21 medals in Italy (5 gold, 7 silver, 9 bronze), finishing eighth on the overall medal table.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half of those medals (10) came from their speed skaters, while they also earned five in freestyle skiing, two in ice hockey, two in curling, and one each in snowboarding and figure skating.<\/p>\n<p>With the Olympians in attendance, the Canadiens took down the Capitals 6-2. Suzuki had three points (1g, 2a) in the win, while Wilson was kept off the scoresheet and Thompson served as <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Charlie Lindgren&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/charlie-lindgren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Lindgren<\/a>\u2018s backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of Saturday night\u2019s game between the Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals, the Caps saw their Olympic medalists,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-507684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507684","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=507684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}