{"id":946308,"date":"2026-10-26T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946308\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T00:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:24:09","slug":"jets-alumni-return-to-drop-puck-ahead-of-heritage-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946308\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets alumni return to drop puck ahead of Heritage Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three fan favorites were joined by Jets forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/adam-lowry-8476392\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Lowry<\/a>\u00a0and Canadiens defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mike-matheson-8476875\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Matheson<\/a>\u00a0for the puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler played 897 games with the Jets during his 13 years with the team, Byfuglien spent nine seasons with the Jets, and Ladd played six years in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler and Byfuglien played together to help push the Jets to the Western Conference Final in 2018, eventually losing to the Vegas Golden Knights in five games.<\/p>\n<p>Byfuglien \u2014 who played both forward and defenseman during his career \u2014 holds the franchise record for goals by a defenseman with 122. He also holds their record for most points in a postseason with 16 (five goals, 11 assists) during that 2018 playoff run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three fan favorites were joined by Jets forward Adam Lowry\u00a0and Canadiens defenseman Mike Matheson\u00a0for the puck drop.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-946308","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\/946308","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=946308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}