{"id":421298,"date":"2026-01-22T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421298\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:34:47","slug":"jets-canadiens-alumni-to-face-off-at-2026-heritage-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421298\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets, Canadiens Alumni to Face Off at 2026 Heritage Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"et_pb_title_meta_container\">January 20, 2026 5:55 PM | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217848\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/winnipeg-jets-alumni-game.jpg\" alt=\"Winnipeg Jets Alumni Game\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-217848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jets and Canadiens will face off in an alumni game at Canada Life Centre on October 24, 2026. (TNSE \/ HANDOUT)<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Jets and Montreal Canadiens will face off in the 2026 Alumni Game as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/2025\/12\/04\/winnipeg-jets-montreal-canadiens-heritage-classic-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL Heritage Classic<\/a> weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be played Saturday, October 24, 2026, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/tag\/Canada-Life-Centre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Life Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary rosters were unveiled by former Jets captain Blake Wheeler and former Canadiens captain and Winnipeg native Mike Keane. The Jets alumni lineup is expected to include Wheeler, Andrew Ladd, Bryan Little, Dustin Byfuglien, Paul Stastny, Mathieu Perreault and Chris Thorburn. The Canadiens alumni roster is set to feature Keane, Patrice Brisebois, Dale Weise, David Desharnais, Paul Byron and David Savard.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler and Keane will also take part in a ceremonial puck drop during tonight\u2019s game to mark the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Season ticket members will receive priority access to tickets, while fans without season tickets can place a deposit for the 2026\u201327 season on the Jets\u2019 website.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details, including start time, broadcast information and ticket sales, will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your favourite Jets are coming back ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LbEkTLJ6UH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/LbEkTLJ6UH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winnipeg Jets (@NHLJets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLJets\/status\/2013755166768668821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 20, 2026 5:55 PM | Sports The Jets and Canadiens will face off in an alumni game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[4056,5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-421298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-canada-life-centre","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-winnipeg","13":"tag-winnipeg-jets","14":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115937598911059602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421298","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=421298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}