{"id":435204,"date":"2023-05-09T13:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435204"},"modified":"2023-05-09T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:04:46","slug":"flames-toffoli-will-be-team-canadas-captain-at-iihf-championship","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/flames-toffoli-will-be-team-canadas-captain-at-iihf-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames Toffoli will be Team Canada&#8217;s captain at IIHF Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/calgary-flames\/\">Calgary Flames<\/a> Tyler Toffoli will be the captain of Team Canada for the IIHF World Championship that will be played at Tampere, Finland, and Riga, Latvia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meet the captains! \/ Voici nos capitaines! \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>C: Tyler Toffoli (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OHFHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@OHFHockey<\/a>)<br \/>\nA: Lawson Crouse (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OHFHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@OHFHockey<\/a>)<br \/>\nA: Scott Laughton (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OHFHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@OHFHockey<\/a>)<br \/>\nA: Milan Lucic (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCHockey_Source?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BCHockey_Source<\/a>)<br \/>\nA: MacKenzie Weegar (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HEOhockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HEOhockey<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IIHFWorlds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IIHFWorlds<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MondialIIHF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MondialIIHF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/amXrZaE6cb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/amXrZaE6cb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyCanada\/status\/1655906159302254593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Coyotes Crouse, Flyers Laughton, Flames Lucic, and Flames Weegar were chosen as alternate captains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am pleased for the chance to play for Canada at the world championship, and it is praise to be chosen captain of a collective with so many excellent players,&#8221; the captain shared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lawson, Scott, Milan, and MacKenzie are respectable leaders on and off the ice, and I can&#8217;t wait to lead Team Canada with them. Our players are delighted to show the Maple Leaf, and we will symbolize Canada with dignity as we compete for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler notched a career-high 34 goals and gave 39 assists after 82 matches with Calgary in the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary Flames Tyler Toffoli will be the captain of Team Canada for the IIHF World Championship that will be played at Tampere, Finland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435205,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16990,17844,19228,18015],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[18445,19229,19230,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Calgary veteran named Team Canada captain.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435204"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435204"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}