{"id":344021,"date":"2025-12-08T02:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/344021\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T02:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:26:34","slug":"canadiens-call-up-goalie-from-ahl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/344021\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens Call Up Goalie From AHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens have made a roster move ahead of their Dec. 7 matchup against the St. Louis Blues, as they have called up goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen from their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Laval Rocket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1997788235422924850\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Canadiens announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Canadiens announced<\/a> that goaltender Samuel Montembeault is sick. As a result, the Canadiens have called up Kahkonen, and he will be backing up Jakub Dobes against the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kahkonen has played in nine games this season for Laval, where he has posted a 6-2-0 record, a .895 save percentage, and a 2.81 goals-against average. This is after the Canadiens signed the 29-year-old goaltender to a one-year, $1.15 million contract during this off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Kahkonen has appeared in 140 career NHL games over six seasons split between the Minnesota Wild, San Jose Sharks, New Jersey Devils, and Colorado Avalanche, where he has recorded a 49-68-15 record, a 3.34 goals-against average, and a 3.34 goals-against average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens have made a roster move ahead of their Dec. 7 matchup against the St. Louis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[3690,71,265,144,1782,5,909,11156,1527,38,264,21,5147,151,4,906,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-344021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-american-hockey-league","9":"tag-blues","10":"tag-canadiens","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-goaltender","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-jakub-dobes","15":"tag-kaapo-kahkonen","16":"tag-laval-rocket","17":"tag-minnesota-wild","18":"tag-montreal","19":"tag-montreal-canadiens","20":"tag-montrealcanadiens","21":"tag-new-jersey-devils","22":"tag-nhl","23":"tag-samuel-montembeault","24":"tag-san-jose-sharks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115681583716902355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344021","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=344021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}