{"id":803707,"date":"2026-07-15T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803707\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:19:11","slug":"winnipeg-jets-set-to-welcome-the-boston-bruins-to-town-for-their-home-opener-on-october-2nd-illegal-curve-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803707\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets set to welcome the Boston Bruins to town for their home opener on October 2nd \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full 84-game schedule for the Jets will be released Thursday, but one date is already on the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg\u2019s home opener for the 2026-27 season will be on Friday, Oct. 2 against the Bruins.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209822\" class=\"wp-image-209822\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CS-December-11-2025_7910.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-209822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a change from the last four years, which featured Boston making its annual visit to Winnipeg in December.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the other 31 teams, the Jets are not part of any other team\u2019s home opener.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, looking at the full NHL home opener release, it\u2019s strange (but welcome) to see the season starting in late September.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The full 84-game schedule for the Jets will be released Thursday, but one date is already on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-803707","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\/803707","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=803707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}