{"id":26681,"date":"2026-04-30T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/26681\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:13:10","slug":"hydro-quebec-removes-lightning-bolt-from-its-logo-as-canadiens-face-tampa-bay-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/26681\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec removes lightning bolt from its logo as Canadiens face Tampa Bay on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec rooting for the <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/what-the-puck-fans-feed-off-canadiens-energy-as-playoff-fever-grips-montreal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrong hockey team<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Could that lightning bolt on the company\u2019s iconic \u201cQ\u201d logo be a sign the utility supports the Tampa Bay Lightning \u2014 whose uniforms sport a suspiciously similar symbol \u2014 and not the Montreal Canadiens?<\/p>\n<p>Just in case there\u2019s any confusion, Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec is clearing things up.<\/p>\n<p>In a tongue-in-cheek video posted on social media, Hydro says it is turning the Q\u2019s tail from a lightning bolt to a more traditional line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were made aware that part of our logo could be misinterpreted this week. We\u2019re setting the record straight,\u201d the utility said in the post.<\/p>\n<p>The video, posted a few hours before the <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-gallagher-had-one-shot-and-he-made-it-count\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Habs defeated the Lightning<\/a> in Game 5 of the first round of the NHL playoffs, shows the logo being edited to \u201cremove the end that you don\u2019t like these days\u201d while a person hums the classic Hockey Night in Canada theme song.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens responded in a comment on the post saying the new version is \u201cmuch better.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The utility has changed the logo that appears on its Instagram and TikTok profiles to the new version.<\/p>\n<p>The Habs face-off against Tampa in Montreal on Friday, Montreal currently <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/about-last-night-jakub-dobes-shows-hes-a-playoff-performer-with-38-save-win-in-game-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leads the series three games to two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec rooting for the wrong hockey team? Could that lightning bolt on the company\u2019s iconic \u201cQ\u201d logo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12874,50],"class_list":["post-26681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-hydro-quebec","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}