{"id":406428,"date":"2026-01-14T03:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/406428\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:03:34","slug":"liveblog-watch-arber-xhekaj-drop-the-gloves-habs-lead-caps-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/406428\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveblog: Watch Arber Xhekaj drop the gloves, Habs lead Caps 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Montreal Canadiens (26-14-6) will look to test just how far they\u2019ve come in the Eastern Conference pecking order when they take on the Washington Capitals (23-17-6) on Tuesday at Capital One Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Puck drop at 7 p.m. (TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690, 98.5 FM).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In their first game against each other since last spring\u2019s first round matchup, the Capitals <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/hidden-game-alex-ovechkins-hat-100044222.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:breezed to an 8-4 victory;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breezed to an 8-4 victory<\/a>. Alexander Ovechkin scored a hat trick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Samuel Montembeault gets the start in goal. He is undefeated in three starts since returning from a conditioning assignment in Laval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Josh Anderson (upper-body injury) returns for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kaiden Guhle is out, Jayden Struble is in on defence.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stay tuned to this page for updates and game highlights throughout the evening. You can also keep the conversation going over on our livestream on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HabsInsideOut\/streams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Josh Anderson, in his first game back from injury, scored a shorthanded goal to give Montreal a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the second period, Phil Danault set up Brendan Gallagher for his fourth goal of the season. The Habs veteran needed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After Jayden Struble was sent into the boards by Dylan McIlrath, Arber Xhekaj defended his teammate by dropping the gloves for a lengthy bout with the Capitals enforcer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens (26-14-6) will look to test just how far they\u2019ve come in the Eastern Conference pecking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[37568,278,407,974,265,894,2158,2217,5,638,410,783,976,1748,264,21,5147,4,906,109],"class_list":["post-406428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-98-5-fm","tag-alexander-ovechkin","tag-arber-xhekaj","tag-brendan-gallagher","tag-canadiens","tag-canucks","tag-dylan-mcilrath","tag-eastern-conference","tag-hockey","tag-ivan-demidov","tag-jayden-struble","tag-josh-anderson","tag-juraj-slafkovsky","tag-kaiden-guhle","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-nhl","tag-samuel-montembeault","tag-washington-capitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115891234978110918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406428","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=406428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}