{"id":942965,"date":"2026-10-23T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942965\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:38:09","slug":"jets-eager-to-experience-heritage-classic-against-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942965\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets eager to experience Heritage Classic against Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood is a familiar theme for many players when it comes to the anticipation of an outdoor game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a kid, I would be outdoors during COVID when the rinks shut down,\u201d said rookie forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/viggo-bjorck-8486025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viggo Bjorck<\/a>, who was selected with the No. 8 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. \u201cI learned how to skate on an outdoor rink with my parents, so it\u2019s going to be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tyrel-bauer-8482459\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrel Bauer<\/a>, the wait until puck drop is almost too far away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of in the back of your head day to day,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s some planning going on behind the scenes. We\u2019re getting fitted for stuff. It\u2019s always kind of there. The energy\u2019s there. You can feel it. &#8230; They\u2019re iconic for a good reason. Just kind of that buzz around it. As it starts to feel more real, it\u2019s a cool feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bauer added that he remembers watching the Heritage Classic growing up, and those memories remain vivid, even years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Flames were playing in one, if I remember correctly,\u201d Bauer said. \u201cI remember the feeling, like the snow, the goalie\u2019s got the toque on. Those memories are pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/haydn-fleury-8477938\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haydn Fleury<\/a>\u00a0also has fond memories of watching outdoor games in his youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust growing up as a kid, like the (Sidney) Crosby (game),\u201d he said, referring to the 2008 NHL Winter Classic, a 2-1 Pittsburgh Penguins win in the shootout against the Buffalo Sabres in Orchard Park, New York. \u201cI think they had those baby blue jerseys on, and he scored the shootout winner. It was always a game you watched on TV as a kid, something you always hoped to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Childhood is a familiar theme for many players when it comes to the anticipation of an outdoor game.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-942965","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\/942965","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=942965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}