{"id":767530,"date":"2026-06-28T21:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767530\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:35:12","slug":"simpson-surprises-iginla-with-draft-jersey-after-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767530\/","title":{"rendered":"Simpson surprises Iginla with draft jersey after selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/todd-simpson-8460782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Todd Simpson<\/a> hasn\u2019t spent too much time as a delivery man throughout his career, but Saturday\u2019s delivery was one to remember.<\/p>\n<p>After the Calgary Flames selected Joe Iginla with the 64th overall pick in the 2026 Upper Deck NHL Draft, the former Flames captain made a surprise visit to Iginla\u2019s front door to hand deliver his new sweater.<\/p>\n<p>Iginla was all smiles after receiving the jersey. How could he not be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Simpson hasn\u2019t spent too much time as a delivery man throughout his career, but Saturday\u2019s delivery was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-767530","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\/767530","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=767530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}