{"id":334525,"date":"2025-12-07T06:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/334525\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:13:06","slug":"winnipeg-jets-montreal-canadiens-to-meet-in-heritage-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/334525\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets, Montreal Canadiens to meet in Heritage Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/wpg\/winnipeg-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/mtl\/montreal-canadiens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> will play an outdoor game next season.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL announced Saturday the teams will face off in the Heritage Classic at Winnipeg&#8217;s Princess Auto Stadium. The event set for Oct. 25 will be the league&#8217;s eighth Heritage Classic and first since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg will host its second outdoor showcase after falling to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/edm\/edmonton-oilers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> at the home of the CFL&#8217;s Blue Bombers in October 2016 before a crowd of 33,240. Montreal will skate in its fifth outdoor game and first in nine years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; The Winnipeg Jets and Montreal Canadiens will play an outdoor game next season. The NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-334525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}