{"id":385699,"date":"2026-01-02T00:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385699\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:29:11","slug":"montreal-canadiens-d-mike-matheson-upper-body-ruled-out-vs-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385699\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens D Mike Matheson (upper-body) ruled out vs. Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-matheson\/8476875\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-matheson\/8476875\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Matheson<\/a> will not play Thursday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> due to an upper-body injury, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mathesono was ruled out just minutes before puck drop. Rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adam-engstrom\/8483686\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adam-engstrom\/8483686\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Engstrom<\/a> will take his spot in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Le d\u00e9fenseur Mike Matheson (haut du corps) ne participera pas au match de ce soir. Le d\u00e9fenseur Adam Engstrom prendra sa place dans la formation.<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman Mike Matheson (upper body) will not play tonight. Defenseman Adam Engstrom will suit up in tonight&#8217;s game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1yVIyskh8D\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1yVIyskh8D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2006872765857714563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matheson took part in Thursday\u2019s morning skate and appeared ready to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 31-year-old was injured in Tuesday\u2019s 3-2 overtime win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> after being elbowed in the head by Panthers forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brad-marchand\/8473419\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brad-marchand\/8473419\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Marchand<\/a> late in the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matheson, a native of Point-Claire, Que., has four goals and 18 points in 37 games this season and averages 25:06 TOI.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson will not play Thursday against the Carolina Hurricanes due to an upper-body injury,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[4759,265,5,264,21,33168,5147,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-385699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canadiens","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-montreal","12":"tag-montreal-canadiens","13":"tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","14":"tag-montrealcanadiens","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115822681525524412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385699","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=385699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}