{"id":234092,"date":"2025-10-09T21:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/234092\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T21:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:09:16","slug":"st-louis-makes-only-one-change-for-tonights-game-vs-red-wings-as-xhekaj-stays-in-the-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/234092\/","title":{"rendered":"St-Louis Makes Only One Change for Tonight&#8217;s Game vs Red Wings, as Xhekaj Stays In the Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St-Louis Makes Only One Change for Tonight&#8217;s Game vs Red Wings, as Xhekaj Stays In the Lineup <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/603520.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Jan 23, 2024; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens defenseman Arber Xhekaj (72) looks on at his first game back after being recalled from the AHL during a warm-up before the game against the Ottawa Senators at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\" title=\"Jan 23, 2024; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens defenseman Arber Xhekaj (72) looks on at his first game back after being recalled from the AHL during a warm-up before the game against the Ottawa Senators at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tIn the past few hours, there have been rumors suggesting that young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Arber-Xhekaj-60284\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Arber Xhekaj profile and hockey stats\">Arber Xhekaj<\/a> might already be taken out of Martin St-Louis&#8217; lineup.<\/p>\n<p>That said, we now have our answer!<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis makes a change for tonight&#8217;s game<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Canadiens will indeed make a change for tonight&#8217;s game against the Detroit Red Wings, but that change will be in goal (not on defense).<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s confirmed for Arber Xhekaj!<\/p>\n<p>He will be in the lineup tonight!<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by RDS journalist Patrick Friolet here:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Martin St-Louis will make only one change to his lineup for tonight&#8217;s game against the Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Jakub-Dobes-64326\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Jakub Dobes profile and hockey stats\">Jakub Dobes<\/a> in net.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Patrick Friolet<\/p>\n<p>Here are the full lineups as well:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Complete rosters for tonight&#8217;s game between the Canadiens and Red Wings in Detroit (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS). Jakub Dobes will start in goal for Habs:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stu Cowan<\/p>\n<p>The puck drop is set for 7:00 p.m., live from Detroit. Enjoy the game!<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HabsFanatics<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>3 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0120 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>St-Louis Makes Only One Change for Tonight&#8217;s Game vs Red Wings, as Xhekaj Stays In the Lineup<\/p>\n<p>Which one would you have put into the lineup tonight, if it were your decision?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/nhl-team\/montreal-canadiens\/Javascript:void(save_clic(\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758080016_875_1692.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MasterPool25-26 ANG\" title=\"MasterPool25-26 ANG\" loading=\"lazy\" defer=\"defer\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHABSFANATICS.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St-Louis Makes Only One Change for Tonight&#8217;s Game vs Red Wings, as Xhekaj Stays In the Lineup Photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[407,5,909,2418,412,21,4,906],"class_list":{"0":"post-234092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-arber-xhekaj","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jakub-dobes","11":"tag-lineup","12":"tag-martin-st-louis","13":"tag-montreal-canadiens","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-samuel-montembeault"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115346261006142676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}