{"id":835931,"date":"2026-09-04T07:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835931\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:12:17","slug":"prime-minister-carney-throws-shade-at-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835931\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Carney throws shade at Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took a lighthearted jab at the Toronto Maple Leafs&#8217; Stanley Cup drought while announcing a federal investment in building cars for Via Rail trains Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our rail cars on our long distance and remote routes are more than 70 years old,&#8221; Carney said. &#8220;They were built when the NHL had six teams. Goalies wouldn&#8217;t wear masks. The Leafs would win the Cup. That&#8217;s a long time ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carney: &#8220;Our rail cars on our long distance and remote routes are more than 70 years old. They were built when the NHL had six teams. Goalies wouldn&#8217;t wear masks. The Leafs would win the cup. That&#8217;s a long time ago.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/av1efaD4Yt\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/av1efaD4Yt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Robertson (@sarobertson_) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sarobertson_\/status\/2095516831708586414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs haven&#8217;t won a Stanley Cup since 1967, the longest active drought in the NHL. The Montreal Canadiens were the last Canadian team to win the Cup in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Carney grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, and is a fan of the Oilers.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took a lighthearted jab at the Toronto Maple Leafs&#8217; Stanley Cup drought while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-835931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835931","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=835931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}