{"id":9939,"date":"2026-01-20T20:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:22:46","slug":"how-players-from-northern-ontario-helped-shape-italys-national-hockey-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/how-players-from-northern-ontario-helped-shape-italys-national-hockey-program\/","title":{"rendered":"How players from northern Ontario helped shape Italy&#8217;s national hockey program\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBC<\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Hockey enthusiasts may know Italy is among 12 nations on the men&#8217;s side that&#8217;ll be vying for gold, while the host country&#8217;s women&#8217;s team is among eight in competition. But what fans may not know is Italy\u2019s hockey program has deep and historic ties to Canada, particularly northern Ontario.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/default.jpg-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9950\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo provided by Bill O&#8217;Donnell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/cortina-canadians-italy-ice-hockey-team-olympics-9.7036534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just over a month, millions of Canadians will be gathering to watch ice hockey at the Milano-Cortina Winter Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":9950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/default.jpg-2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9951,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions\/9951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}