The Canadiens placed defenceman Mike Matheson on the injured-reserve list Thursday morning with an abdominal muscle strain and called up Corey Schueneman from the AHL’s Laval Rocket.
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Matheson took part in the morning skate before a Kraft Hockeyville preseason game against the Ottawa Senators last Thursday in Gander, N.L., and he was expected to be in the lineup that night. After the morning skate, the Canadiens announced that they were making a lineup change and that Matheson would be replaced by Justin Barron. The Canadiens added at the time that Matheson was not injured.
It turns out Matheson did have an injury and he had an MRI on Wednesday morning before being placed on the injured-reserve list.
The Canadiens are also missing veteran defenceman Joel Edmundson, who suffered a back injury two days before the start of training camp during an on-ice collision with captain Nick Suzuki. Edmundson has started skating again, but there is no timetable for when he might start practising with his teammates.
St. Louis said that calling up Schueneman “brings us some depth right now going on the road” with the Canadiens playing the Red Wings Friday night in Detroit and the Capitals Saturday night in Washington.
The Canadiens set a record last season when they lost 731 man-games to injury and finished in last place in the overall NHL standings with a 22-49-11 record.
The Canadiens also got goals from Sean Monahan and Josh Anderson, who scored the winner with only 19 seconds left on the clock.
Last season, Caufield finished the season with 23 goals, including 22 in the 37 games after St. Louis took over from Dominique Ducharme as head coach. In the final game last season, Caufield scored three goals in a 10-2 win over the Florida Panthers.
Canadiens goalie Jake Allen was asked after Wednesday night’s game if it’s possible to teach a young player how to score goals the way Caufield does with his wicked shot.
“I’m a goalie and I get scored on all the time,” Allen said with a grin. “I think I have a pretty good sense of how guys score throughout the game. I played against a lot of really good players. You get guys in practice that have maybe better shots than some of these guys. But it’s practice. There’s no pressure on you, you don’t have sticks in front of you. But to do that in a game at certain speeds and time and space is very small — it’s very quick — it’s a skillset that you really can’t teach. You can get better at it. But some guys just have a knack for it more than others and, fortunately, we have one with a knack.
“If you look at a guy like (Toronto’s Auston) Matthews last year (when he had 60 goals to lead the NHL) he scores in tight spaces in spots where guys would never get shots off,” Allen added. “That’s sort of what (Caufield) does. Cole’s shown tonight he’s off to a good start and he’s going to have a helluva career scoring goals in this league.”
A farewell to Price?
When he was playing for the Montreal Juniors in the QMJHL, Allen used to go to Canadiens games at the Bell Centre and watch Carey Price play.
“He’s only a couple of years older than me,” the 32-year-old Allen said. “I know how much he meant to this organization, the city and this fan base.”
It now looks almost certain that Price’s career is over at age 35 because of a knee injury that limited him to five games last season and has now placed him on long-term injured reserve. Price received a huge ovation from Bell Centre fans when he was introduced before the season opener and he came out wearing a dark grey suit with matching cowboy hat to chants of “Ca-rey! Ca-rey!”
“It’s great to have him around,” Allen said. “He’s been the face of this franchise for 15 years probably. It’s great for myself, personally, to have him around. I get along with him great. I’m never going to be able to fill Carey’s shoes, but I’m going to do the best that I can to pick up the slack in his spot.
Allen was asked if he can imagine what Price is going through mentally with the realization his career is likely over.
“It’s unfortunate,” Allen said. “But if you look at it from a realistic view, it could happen to anyone at any point in any career. I’ve seen it first-hand. You could be 22 years old in the NHL and you take a hit into the boards and you might never play again. It’s unfortunate. Our game is played so fast and so rugged and so physical and demanding now, especially as a goalie, and the amount of games Carey played over 14, 15 years.
“To be honest, I’m impressed that he got that far,” Allen added. “I personally never would have got through that amount of games (712), I’ll tell you that. He was very diligent taking care of himself — I’ve watched that — and it’s even tougher to see a guy that takes that much pride in his body and his body sort of rejecting what he’s doing to try to help it. It would be totally different if he was a guy who wasn’t trying. But from Day 1 he was a freak about his body in a positive way. I think it showed a lot of these young guys — even last year — how intense he was about taking care of his body in the right way just to make sure he could play at the highest level he could.”
Crossing the border
The Canadiens will play their first game in the United States Friday night after playing all eight of their preseason games and the home opener in Canada.
“We’re going to have to listen to two anthems now before the game,” defenceman Chris Wideman said with a grin after practice Thursday.
“It’s good … it’s always fun to play in Detroit and Washington,” Wideman added.
The Canadiens will be facing former teammate Ben Chiarot when they play Detroit after the defenceman signed a four-year, US$19-million contract with the Red Wings as a free agent this summer.
“I’m looking forward to playing against Bennie Chiarot again,” Wideman said. “Seeing big Bennie. We’re going to have some fun with him, so we’re looking forward to seeing him. He’s a great guy. He was a big part of the room here and a guy that we definitely miss off the ice. So it will be fun to see him.
“Detroit’s a great team,” Wideman added. “They got some good, young players. They’re kind of retooling and building their team. It will be a good test for us and it’s their home opener. So they’ll have all the excitement that we had last night and we got to be there to match it.”
What’s next?
The Canadiens flew to Detroit after Thursday’s practice and will face the Red Wings Friday night at Little Caesars Arena (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690, 98.5 FM). They will fly to Washington after Friday’s game and play the Capitals Saturday night at Capital One Arena (7 p.m., SNE, CITY, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM ).
Next week, the Canadiens will play three games at the Bell Centre against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday night, the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday night and the Dallas Stars on Saturday night.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Martin Necas scored a go-ahead goal with 29 seconds left and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-4 on Tuesday night.
It was the seventh straight win for the Hurricanes, who also got goals from Jack Roslovic, Jordan Martinook, Eric Robinson and Jackson Blake. Seth Jarvis added an empty-net goal in the final seconds.
Necas typically saves his game-winners for overtime, with nine in his career, but he was able to take care of business in regulation with his team-best seventh goal of the season.
Travis Konecny scored two goals and had two assists for the Flyers. Morgan Frost and Owen Tippett also scored for Philadelphia.
Aleksei Kolosov made 28 saves for the Flyers, who trailed 2-1, 3-1 and 4-3 but kept coming back. Carolina’s Pyotr Kochetkov struggled in net allowing four goals on just 16 shots.
Elsewhere in the NHL on Tuesday:
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SABRES 5 SENATORS 1
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Bowen Byram and Tage Thompson scored 16 seconds apart to open the third period, and Buffalo snapped a three-game skid with a win over Ottawa.
Byram scored twice, JJ Peterka had two goals and an assist and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 37 saves.
Ridly Greig converted his own rebound in cutting Buffalo’s lead to 2-1 with 7:31 left in the second period. Linus Ullmark made 29 saves in dropping to 1-4 in his past five starts.
Buffalo went up 3-1 on Byram’s second goal 21 seconds into the third period. The defenceman’s shot from inside the blue line sneaked through Ullmark, with the puck rolling down the goalie’s pad, dropping into the crease and trickling across the line. Thompson scored when he crashed the net, was knocked over by defender Jake Sanderson and was lying in the crease when Alex Tuch’s shot went in off his shoulder.
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MAPLE LEAFS 4 BRUINS 0
TORONTO (AP) — Anthony Stolarz made 29 saves for his first shutout of the season in Toronto’s 4-0 victory over Boston.
Morgan Rielly had a goal and two assists as Toronto connected three times on the power play. William Nylander and Matthew Knies added a goal and an assist each. Mitch Marner had two assists of his own. Steven Lorentz rounded out the scoring into the empty net.
The Leafs played without captain Auston Matthews, who is listed as day-to-day with an upper-body injury.
Jeremy Swayman made 23 stops for Boston, which was coming off consecutive weekend shutouts of the Philadelphia Flyers and Seattle Kraken.
Toronto’s porous 31st-ranked power play scored for the second time in as many games at 8:44 of the second period when Rielly fired through a screen. Nylander banked in his team-leading 10th goal of the season on another man advantage 1:14 later for a 2-0 lead.
The Bruins entered the game 8-0-0 in the regular season against their Atlantic Division rival dating back to Jan. 14, 2023.
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FLAMES 3 CANADIENS 2 (OT)
MONTREAL (AP) — Matt Coronato scored twice as Calgary came back to defeat Montreal in overtime.
Coronato tied the game with 2:46 remaining in regulation when he cruised into the slot and went off the post and in. He then buried the winning goal seven seconds into the extra period.
Connor Zary also scored for Calgary, which won its second game in seven outings. Dustin Wolf stopped 21 shots.
Joel Armia — with a short-handed goal — and Brendan Gallagher scored for Montreal (4-7-2). Armia also provided an assist, while Sam Montembeault made 32 saves as the Canadiens’ losing streak extended to four games.
Zary opened the scoring with his third 4:20 into the second period when he pounced on a loose puck in the slot and fired a shot past Montembeault.
Gallagher then slipped the puck between Wolf’s pads at 16:23 to level the score with his fifth of the season.
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BLUES 3 LIGHTNING 2
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jordan Kyrou, Alexey Toropchenko and Oskar Sundqvist scored to help St. Louis beat Tampa Bay 3-2.
Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington made 21 saves for his 149th career win moving him past Jake Allen for second place in franchise history, just two wins behind Mike Liut’s 151.
Nick Perbix and Victor Hedman scored, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 20 saves for the Lightning who have lost three straight games.
Kyrou scored his fourth goal of the season 8:51 into the third period to give St. Louis a 3-1 lead.
Toropchenko scored his first goal of the season with 1:35 remaining in the second period to put St. Louis ahead 2-1 after Sundqvist tied the game with his first of the season 7:47 into the period.
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ISLANDERS 4 PENGUINS 3 (SO)
NEW YORK (AP) — Bo Horvat scored the only goal in a shootout and New York rallied past Pittsburgh 4-3.
New York goalie Ilya Sorokin denied Rickard Rakell, Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang in the shootout and finished with 32 saves. Kyle Palmieri had a goal and an assist for the Islanders, who trailed 3-1 midway through the third period.
Simon Holmstrom and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored in the third for New York. Horvat had two assists.
Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist to lead Pittsburgh. Crosby got his 598th career goal, and Michael Bunting also scored. Rakell added two assists.
Alex Nedeljkovich stopped 23 shots for the Penguins, who have lost seven of nine. They won their previous two following a six-game skid.
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KINGS 5 WILD 1
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Trevor Lewis scored twice, Kevin Fiala added another on the power play and Los Angeles beat Minnesota 5-1.
Warren Foegele and Quinton Byfield also scored for Los Angeles, which was playing the second night of a back-to-back after a 3-0 win in Nashville a night earlier. David Rittich made 23 saves for the Kings.
Fiala, who was traded to Los Angeles in 2022 by Minnesota for a first-round pick draft pick and defenceman Brock Faber, scored his seventh goal of the season. He now has three goals and six assists in his last seven games against the Wild.
Minnesota, which had won three in a row, opened the scoring in the second period on Zach Bogosian’s first goal of the season. Goaltender Filip Gustavsson stopped 23 shots for the Wild.
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JETS 3 UTAH 0
WINNIPEG, Man. (AP) — Nino Niederreiter scored twice in his 900th NHL career game and Connor Hellebuyck made 21 saves to help Winnipeg defeat Utah 3-0.
It was Hellebuyck’s second shutout of the season and 39th of this career.
Gabriel Vilardi also scored for the Jets. Adam Lowry assisted on both goals by Niederreiter.
Utah ended a run of picking up points in three consecutive games (1-0-2).
Karel Vejmelka stopped 25 shots for Utah in its second stop on a four-game road trip.
Jets winger Kyle Connor had his franchise-record, season-opening points streak end at 12 games.
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AVALANCHE 6 KRAKEN 3
DENVER (AP) — Arturri Lehkonen scored the go-ahead goal on a power play in his season debut and Nathan MacKinnon had five assists as Colorado beat Seattle 6-3.
Mikko Rantanen added two goals for the Avalanche, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Ivan Ivan, Nikolai Kovalenko and Chris Wagner also scored for Colorado.
Cale Makar had two assists but the star defenceman barely played in the second half of the game and appeared to be slowed by an apparent injury during a brief shift.
MacKinnon and Makar extended their season-opening point streaks to 13 games.
Lehkonen played for the first time since off-season shoulder surgery.
Jared McCann, Jaden Schwartz and Brandon Montour scored for the Kraken.
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CANUCKS 5 DUCKS 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Brock Boeser, Danton Heinen and Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and an assist apiece, and Quinn Hughes recorded his 300th career assist in Vancouver’s victory over Anaheim.
Jake DeBrusk and Elias Pettersson also scored and Hughes had three assists for the Canucks, who have won six of eight. Kevin Lankinen made 21 saves in Vancouver’s sixth consecutive win over the Ducks.
Olen Zellweger scored a power-play goal early in the first period for Anaheim, which has lost seven of nine. Lukas Dostal stopped 31 shots.
Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko took shots from teammates again after the morning skate, and he could return to practice this week. The Southern California native and 2023-24 Vezina Trophy finalist hasn’t played this season due to a knee injury incurred late last season.
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SHARKS 2 BLUE JACKETS 1 (OT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Alex Wennberg scored 3:11 into overtime and San Jose celebrated the return of No. 1 overall draft pick Macklin Celebrini with a win over Columbus.
Defenceman Jack Thompson scored his first career goal for the Sharks (4-8-2), who entered the night with the worst record in the NHL. San Jose has won four of five.
Celebrini, the top pick in the 2024 NHL draft, missed 12 games with a hip injury he sustained in the season opener Oct. 10 — an injury first incurred during the pre-season. Celebrini didn’t score and missed a shot early in overtime.
San Jose goalie Vitek Vanacek was fantastic in net, making 49 saves.
Blue Jackets right wing Kirill Marchenko scored for the second consecutive game. Columbus (5-6-1) has lost three straight.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe remain undefeated in women’s doubles at the WTA Finals.
The 2023 U.S. Open champions, seeded second at the event, secured a 1-6, 7-6 (1), (11-9) super-tiebreak win over fourth-seeded Italians Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in round-robin play on Tuesday.
The season-ending tournament features the WTA Tour’s top eight women’s doubles teams.
Dabrowski and Routliffe lost the first set in 22 minutes but levelled the match by breaking Errani’s serve three times in the second, including at 6-5. They clinched victory with Routliffe saving a match point on her serve and Dabrowski ending Errani’s final serve-and-volley attempt.
Dabrowski and Routliffe will next face fifth-seeded Americans Caroline Dolehide and Desirae Krawczyk on Thursday, where a win would secure a spot in the semifinals.
The final is scheduled for Saturday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Nov. 5, 2024.
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EDMONTON – Jake Allen made 31 saves for his second shutout of the season and 26th of his career as the New Jersey Devils closed out their Western Canadian road trip with a 3-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday.
Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist and Stefan Noesen and Timo Meier also scored for the Devils (8-5-2) who have won three of their last four on the heels on a four-game losing skid.
The Oilers (6-6-1) had their modest two-game winning streak snapped.
Calvin Pickard made 13 stops between the pipes for Edmonton.
TAKEAWAYS
Devils: In addition to his goal, Bratt picked up his 12th assist of the young season to give him nine points in his last eight games and now 15 points overall. Nico Hischier remains in the team lead, picking up an assist of his own to give him 16 points for the campaign. He has a point in all but four games this season.
Oilers: Forward Leon Draisaitl was held pointless after recording six points in his previous two games and nine points in his previous four. Draisaitl usually has strong showings against the Devils, coming into the contest with an eight-game point streak against New Jersey and 11 goals in 17 games.
KEY MOMENT
New Jersey took a 2-0 lead on the power play with 3:26 remaining in the second period as Hischier made a nice feed into the slot to Bratt, who wired his third of the season past Pickard.
KEY RETURN?
Oilers star forward and captain Connor McDavid took part in the optional morning skate for the Oilers, leading to hopes that he may be back sooner rather than later. McDavid has been expected to be out for two to three weeks with an ankle injury suffered during the first shift of last Monday’s loss in Columbus.
OILERS DEAL FOR D-MAN
The Oilers have acquired defenceman Ronnie Attard from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for defenceman Ben Gleason.
The 6-foot-3 Attard has spent the past three season in the Flyers organization seeing action in 29 career games. The 25-year-old right-shot defender and Western Michigan University grad was originally selected by Philadelphia in the third round of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. Attard will report to the Oilers’ AHL affiliate in Bakersfield.
UP NEXT
Devils: Host the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.
Oilers: Host the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 4, 2024.
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