{"id":947702,"date":"2026-10-27T03:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947702\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T03:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:46:11","slug":"blake-wheeler-thanks-winnipeg-fans-for-making-alumni-return-special-illegal-curve-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947702\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Wheeler thanks Winnipeg fans for making alumni return special \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Wheeler was back in a Jets jersey for Saturday\u2019s Heritage Classic alumni game, and the reception left an impression on the former Winnipeg captain.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212052\" class=\"wp-image-212052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_4208.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-212052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/De-BBHYgZhM\/?cplk=a3gyd2R4eW9nZGk=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this message<\/a> on Instagram following the weekend:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Only Winnipeg can make an alumni game feel like a playoff game. Thank you @nhljets and all of the fans in Winnipeg for making us feel so special<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler\u2019s message echoed what was evident throughout the night, with fans making the most of the chance to welcome back some familiar faces.<\/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\/2026\/10\/1793072771_526_logoillegalnew.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Wheeler was back in a Jets jersey for Saturday\u2019s Heritage Classic alumni game, and the reception left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-947702","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\/947702","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=947702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}