{"id":572002,"date":"2026-03-31T02:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572002\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:41:10","slug":"winnipeg-jets-kyle-connor-featured-in-entertaining-kfc-collab-illegal-curve-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572002\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Kyle Connor featured in entertaining KFC collab \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His real initials are KDC, short for Kyle David Connor, but around these parts Jets winger Kyle \u201cFrickin\u201d Connor, or KFC, is the nickname that has stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Which, of course, has led to a relationship with Kentucky Fried Chicken. Last season, during Game 2 of the Jets\u2019 second-round playoff series against the Stars, they gave away chicken bucket hats to fans.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207165\" class=\"wp-image-207165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CS-May-09-2025_3332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-207165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)<\/p>\n<p>Today I received an email announcing that KFC Canada is doing a limited-edition partnership with number 81. While I wouldn\u2019t normally report on something like this, the commercial they produced to promote the collab is worth mentioning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Who knew that Kyle \u201cFrickin\u201d Connor had acting chops.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty entertaining promo video for the Jets winger\u2019s collab with KFC.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ek2WxGFhcX\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/ek2WxGFhcX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WWJ2WSxYHB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WWJ2WSxYHB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Minuk (@ICdave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICdave\/status\/2038770376243605536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s genuinely funny, and I think fans will enjoy seeing the \u201cacting\u201d chops of the Michigan product.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/logoillegalnew.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His real initials are KDC, short for Kyle David Connor, but around these parts Jets winger Kyle \u201cFrickin\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-572002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572002","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=572002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}