{"id":467745,"date":"2023-10-30T12:58:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467745"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:58:05","slug":"wheeler-to-play-with-rangers-against-jets-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wheeler-to-play-with-rangers-against-jets-in-winnipeg\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheeler to play with Rangers against Jets in Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Rangers player Blake Wheeler will play his 1<sup>st<\/sup> ever match against the Winnipeg Jets today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLJets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NHLJets<\/a> captain Blake Wheeler makes his first trip back to Winnipeg with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NYR<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wgw47uCkrp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wgw47uCkrp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Lu (@JohnLuTSNWpg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnLuTSNWpg\/status\/1719017601597309378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wheeler, who has been captain of Winnipeg from 2016-2022 during his 13 seasons with the organization, returns to his ex-team after being bought out during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really have only admiration for that place and everything it&#8217;s meant to me, my career, my family, all the friends that still live in this place,&#8221; Wheeler shared with the media ahead of his return. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be an amazing experience after all the years that I spent here, and I will try to gain only positive emotions from the match on Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After being part of the Boston Bruins for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 3 campaigns of his career in the NHL, Blake was traded to the Atlanta Thrashers.<\/p>\n<p>After notching 16 goals and earning 55 points in 72 matches with Winnipeg in the past campaign, the forward is still looking for his 1<sup>st<\/sup> point with New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Rangers player Blake Wheeler will play his 1st ever match against the Winnipeg Jets today. Former #NHLJets captain Blake Wheeler makes his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":467746,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21935,16716,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[21936,17850,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The forward will return to Winnipeg today with his new team.","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\/467745"}],"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=467745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467748,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467745\/revisions\/467748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467745"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467745"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}