{"id":777776,"date":"2026-07-03T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777776\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:17:12","slug":"maple-leafs-mckenna-says-he-would-give-up-no-72-for-bobrovsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777776\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; McKenna says he would give up No. 72 for Bobrovsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first overall pick said he would sacrifice his No. 72 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/sergei-bobrovsky\/433d0416-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"433d0416-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a>, who wore that number with the Florida Panthers, if he wants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s a two-time Stanley Cup champion. If he wants it, he can have it,&#8221; McKenna said at Maple Leafs development camp on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnnaNoelleDua\/status\/2072726011104334035?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Sportsnet&#8217;s Anna Dua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs signed Bobrovsky, also a two-time Vezina Trophy winner, to a three-year, $21-million contract as free agency opened on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>McKenna wore No. 72 at Penn State this season and with the WHL&#8217;s Medicine Hat Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/koshtorontosun\/status\/2072729710576988531\" rel=\"nofollow\">backup Nos. 9 and 27<\/a> are retired by the franchise in honour of Charlie Conacher, Ted Kennedy, Darryl Sittler and Frank Mahovlich.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear which digits McKenna will don for his upcoming rookie season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first overall pick said he would sacrifice his No. 72 to Sergei Bobrovsky, who wore that number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-777776","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\/777776","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=777776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}