{"id":9955,"date":"2026-02-02T18:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:10:39","slug":"ottawa-born-hockey-player-to-represent-italy-at-winter-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/ottawa-born-hockey-player-to-represent-italy-at-winter-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa-born hockey player to represent Italy at Winter Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CTV<\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Ottawa\u2019s Jason Seed is set to suit up to play in the upcoming Olympic winter games \u2014 but not for Canada. Instead, Jason will play in Milan for the host nation Italy, where he holds a dual citizenship and his family has deep ties.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jason-Seed_1-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jason-Seed_1-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jason-Seed_1-1024x768-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit:\u00a0\u00a9 IIHF &#8211; Vanna Antonello<\/figcaption><\/figure><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.ctvnews.ca\/ottawa\/article\/ottawa-born-hockey-player-to-represent-italy-at-upcoming-winter-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seed went undrafted following his junior career, leading him to pursue professional teams in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":9964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1965],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"pmpro-has-access"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jason-Seed_1-1024x768-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955","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=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}