{"id":128048,"date":"2025-07-16T23:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/128048\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:32:17","slug":"hockey-world-mourns-the-passing-of-former-canadiens-goaltender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/128048\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey World Mourns the Passing of Former Canadiens Goaltender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/579559.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo of Wayne Thomas\" title=\"Photo of Wayne Thomas\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: NHL<\/p>\n<p>A death has indeed struck the extended Montreal Canadiens family, as a former goaltender of the team has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>As announced by the San Jose Sharks and TVA Sports, Wayne Thomas has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Sharks mourn the passing of Wayne Thomas, longtime executive, goaltending coach, and eight-year NHL veteran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; San Jose Sharks<\/p>\n<p>Former Montreal Canadiens Goalie Wayne Thomas Passes Away Under Sad Circumstances<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Thomas, born in September 1947, was a 6-foot-1, 205-pound goaltender.<\/p>\n<p>He played 243 career games in the National Hockey League, recording 103 wins, 93 losses, and 34 overtime losses, with a goals-against average of 3.34 and a save percentage of .891.<\/p>\n<p>He began his career with the Montreal Canadiens and notably played alongside greats like Yvan Cournoyer, Jacques Lemaire, Guy Lafleur, Henri Richard, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>We extend our deepest condolences to the Thomas family, his loved ones, as well as to the Montreal Canadiens and San Jose Sharks organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas also served as a coach in the NHL for over 12 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HabsFanatics<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: NHL A death has indeed struck the extended Montreal Canadiens family, as a former goaltender of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,7911,4284,5,264,21,5147,285,40,4,22577],"class_list":{"0":"post-128048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-goalie","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-montreal","13":"tag-montreal-canadiens","14":"tag-montrealcanadiens","15":"tag-national-hockey-league","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-wayne-thomas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114865526943180778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}