{"id":26979,"date":"2024-05-14T00:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T00:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/14-year-old-picked-first-in-whl-draft-inspired-by-family-to-play-hockey-canada-tonight\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T00:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T00:49:41","slug":"14-year-old-picked-first-in-whl-draft-inspired-by-family-to-play-hockey-canada-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/14-year-old-picked-first-in-whl-draft-inspired-by-family-to-play-hockey-canada-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old picked first in WHL draft \u2018inspired\u2019 by family to play hockey | Canada Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gjSkzBUjAuI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Last month, Hockey Canada granted exceptional player status to Landon DuPont, a 14-year-old defenceman from Calgary. He was also picked first in the Western Hockey League draft. Connor Bedard is the first and only other player granted this status. DuPont says, \u2018Ever since I was born, my brother and my dad played hockey.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on TikTok:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Hockey Canada granted exceptional player status to Landon DuPont, a 14-year-old defenceman from Calgary. He was also picked first in the Western Hockey League draft. Connor Bedard is the first and only other player granted this status. DuPont&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26612,86,87,5411,26613,1477,26611,26614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}