{"id":48138,"date":"2026-04-12T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48138"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:45:10","slug":"liveblog-noah-dobson-leaves-game-for-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48138","title":{"rendered":"Liveblog: Noah Dobson leaves game for Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With Cole Caufield now at 50 goals and Juraj Slafkovsky at 30, will the Canadiens <strong>(47-22-10)<\/strong> keep the pedal to the metal against the Columbus Blue Jackets <strong>(39-28-12)<\/strong> in their final home game of the regular season?<\/p>\n<p>Puck drop at the Bell Centre at 7 p.m. <strong>(CityTV, TVA Sports, Sportsnet, TSN Radio 690, 98.5 FM)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Habs have three games left in their regular season. They play the New York Islanders tomorrow and the Philadephia Flyers on Tuesday, both on the road.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jakub Dobes<\/strong> is expected to start in goal once again. He made 17 saves in Thursday\u2019s 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. <\/li>\n<li>No lineup changes: <strong>Brendan Gallagher<\/strong>, <strong>Zachary Bolduc<\/strong>, <strong>Kaiden Guhle<\/strong> remain out.<\/li>\n<li>Elliotte Friedman is reporting top prospect <strong>Michael Hage<\/strong> <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2043074677791220021?s=20\">will not sign with the Canadiens<\/a> and return to college in the fall. His NCAA season <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/habs-mailbag-michael-hage-could-be-a-fit-on-canadiens-second-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">came to an end on Thursday<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The big milestone the team is still chasing: 100 points for captain <strong>Nick Suzuki<\/strong>. He\u2019s at 98.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/how-and-where-to-watch-the-canadiens-on-tv-for-2025-26-season\">How and where<\/a>\u00a0to watch the Canadiens on TV for 2025-26 season.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/blacked-out-on-sportsnet-or-rds-heres-how-to-watch-canadiens-games-from-ontario-and-western-canada\">Blacked out on TSN2 or RDS?<\/a>\u00a0Here\u2019s how to watch Canadiens\u2019 games from Ontario and Western Canada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned to this page for updates and game highlights throughout the evening. No livestream on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HabsInsideOut\/streams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel<\/a>, but it will return for Tuesday\u2019s regular season finale.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><strong>First Period:<\/strong> Jackets show desperation<\/p>\n<p>Just 1:13 into the game, Boone Jenner pounced on the rebound in front of Jakub Dobes. <strong>1-0 Blue Jackets<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>At 5:42 of the first, the Blue Jackets added to their lead with Charlie Coyle successfully driving the net. <strong>2-0 Blue Jackets<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>The Canadiens cut into the Columbus lead when Jake Evans sent a cross-ice pass to Josh Anderson for his 14th on the season. With an assist Lane Hutson is two away from tying Larry Robinson team record for a defenceman in a season. <strong>2-1 Blue Jackets<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><strong>Second Period:<\/strong> Jackets keep pushing<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets regained their two-goal lead at 1:22 of the second period. Kirill Marchenko used Noah Dobson as a screen to beat Dobes. <strong>3-1 Blue Jackets<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Oliver Kapanen was sent to the box for hooking, but coach Martin St. Louis showed displeasure with Xhekaj\u2019s defensive work on the play. The coach talked to his rearguard on the bench afterwards.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>After successfully killing the Kapanen penalty, the Habs coughed up the puck to Sean Monahan for the fourth Columbus goal of the game. Dobes allowed four goals for the first time since Mar. 3. <strong>4-1 Blue Jackets<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Defenceman Noah Dobson went to the dressing room after blocking a shot. The team announced during the intermission he would not return.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><strong>Third Period:<\/strong> Caufield hits 51<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens cut the Columbus lead to two with a shot from an impossible angle by Cole Caufield that beat Jet Greaves. Of Cole Caufield\u2019s 51 goals this season, 21 have been scored on Saturdays. Nick Suzuki got his 99th point with an assist. <strong>4-2 Blue Jackets<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Ivan Demidov went to the dressing room after taking a hit from behind by Zach Werenski. He returned to the game shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>After the Blue Jackets had their fifth goal called off on goaltender interference, Columbus got it right back on the power play by Coyle. <strong>5-2 Blue Jackets<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<section class=\"section\">\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/liveblog-can-canadiens-maintain-pace-vs-blue-jackets\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Cole Caufield now at 50 goals and Juraj Slafkovsky at 30, will the Canadiens (47-22-10) keep the pedal to the metal against the Columbus Blue&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}