{"id":780342,"date":"2026-07-04T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780342\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:10:09","slug":"gavin-mckenna-to-wear-no-92-with-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780342\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin McKenna to wear No. 92 with Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was made after he ceded No. 72, the number he has worn throughout much of his junior career, to veteran goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky.<\/p>\n<p>McKenna told reporters Thursday he would give up the number that both have worn throughout their careers out of deference to the two-time Stanley Cup champ, who signed a three-year, $21-million deal with the Maple Leafs on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old wore No. 72 at Penn State this season and with the WHL&#8217;s Medicine Hat Tigers, and his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/koshtorontosun\/status\/2072729710576988531\" rel=\"nofollow\">backup Nos. 9 and 27<\/a>\u00a0are retired by the franchise in honour of Charlie Conacher, Ted Kennedy, Darryl Sittler and Frank Mahovlich.<\/p>\n<p>McKenna will be the fourth Leafs player to wear No. 92 following Jeff O&#8217;Neil, Igor Ozhiganov and, most recently, Alexander Nylander.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs and McKenna agreed to his three-year, entry-level contract on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision was made after he ceded No. 72, the number he has worn throughout much of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-780342","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\/780342","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=780342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}