{"id":78707,"date":"2025-08-18T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78707\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:45:10","slug":"maple-leafs-honor-former-player-and-his-inspiring-fight-after-his-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78707\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs Honor Former Player and His Inspiring Fight After His Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Kirton following a battle with ALS.<\/p>\n<p>Mark made his NHL debut with the blue and white and would go on to spend 8 seasons in the NHL. In 2018, he was diagnosed with ALS and in 2020 he founded ALS Action Canada with PALS (Patients with ALS), a patient-led initiative to find a cure.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs Alumni Association were proud to name Mark a recent recipient of the Carl Brewer Memorial award in recognition of his work.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with Mark&#8217;s friends and family during this time. For more information on ALS Action Canada please visit alsactioncanada.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Kirton following a battle with ALS. Mark made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[3179,47760,49,48,428,47761,47534,448,82,746],"class_list":["post-78707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-als","tag-als-action-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-death","tag-former-draft-pick","tag-mark-kirton","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78707","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=78707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}