{"id":164822,"date":"2026-02-05T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164822\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:21:24","slug":"gudas-son-surprises-defenseman-as-czechia-flag-bearer-during-pregame-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164822\/","title":{"rendered":"Gudas\u2019 son surprises defenseman as Czechia flag bearer during pregame ceremony\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHey buddy, good to see you here,\u201d Gudas said to Kvido in Czech and gave him a fist bump. \u201cYou look great, buddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks captain then went into parent mode, directing his son to scoot closer and to put the flag behind him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know, Dad. I know what to do,\u201d Kvido responded to his father.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time Gudas will represent Czechia in the Olympics. He played in three games during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the last time NHL players participated in the winter games. Ducks goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lukas-dostal-8480843\" title=\"Lukas Dostal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Dostal<\/a> will also repsent Czechia at the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHey buddy, good to see you here,\u201d Gudas said to Kvido in Czech and gave him a fist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-164822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}