{"id":425018,"date":"2026-01-24T05:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/425018\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:54:13","slug":"price-progressing-anderson-game-time-decision-gallagher-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/425018\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Progressing, Anderson Game-Time Decision, Gallagher Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens announced Saturday that goalie Carey Price has made it to the next stage of his comeback attempt to play this season.<\/p>\n<p>Price practiced with his teammates for the first time this season on Saturday morning and following practice, the Montreal Canadiens announced that Price had made it to a \u2018new stage\u2019 in his rehab process to hopefully get back to game shape.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Canadiens goalie hasn\u2019t played in a game since Game 5 of the 2021 Stanley Cup Final last July. There is still no timetable for his return.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Carey Price:<\/p>\n<p>Est \u00e0 l\u2019entra\u00eenement avec ses co\u00e9quipiers. Il progresse et est pass\u00e9 \u00e0 une autre \u00e9tape de sa r\u00e9adaptation. Aucun \u00e9ch\u00e9ancier n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tabli.<\/p>\n<p>Back at practice with his teammates. He\u2019s progressing and has begun a new stage of his rehab. No timeline for his return.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1505192299696959494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With plenty of uncertainty surrounding the goalie situation for the Montreal Canadiens, new general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/amid-uncertainty-over-price-canadiens-have-no-plans-to-make-a-goalie-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Hughes<\/a> is still stressing that he will not move Price or backup Jake Allen ahead of the NHL Trade Deadline Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still in a period of uncertainty with Carey, and we\u2019ll still be in one until Carey plays a few games and we see how his knee responds,\u201d Hughes said this past Thursday. \u201cWe don\u2019t have plans to trade a goalie right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the Montreal Canadiens will get one injured player back when <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.nationalhockeynow.com\/2022\/03\/19\/montreal-canadiens-drouin-returning-and-excited-to-finally-play-for-st-louis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Drouin<\/a> returns to the lineup on Saturday night against the Ottawa Senators, they lost another key player from their lineup. The team announced that winger Brendan Gallagher will not play and is day-to-day with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens forward Josh Anderson is also a game time decision with a lower-body injury that kept him out of the last two games.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Canadiens also announced these injury updates on Saturday:<\/p>\n<p>Forward Tyler Pitlick\u00a0is day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Poehling\u00a0is out for one to two weeks with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Defenceman Kale Clague\u00a0will miss one week with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow rearguard David Savard returned to practice, but he hasn\u2019t been cleared yet. He\u2019s day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Goalie Andrew Hammond\u00a0is skating and continues to progress. He\u2019ll miss one to two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769234053_920_07ba55ead0c73509df880c421e3023e5ac7c7d9f55b4c9b9a5aeeb184bcdf689.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tMarc  has  been  covering  the  Habs  for  over  a  decade.  He  previously  worked  for  Journal  Metro,  The  Athletic,  The  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/marc-dumont\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Dumont<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens announced Saturday that goalie Carey Price has made it to the next stage of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[974,265,2268,5,1037,783,264,21,5147,4,548,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-425018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-brendan-gallagher","9":"tag-canadiens","10":"tag-carey-price","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jonathan-drouin","13":"tag-josh-anderson","14":"tag-montreal","15":"tag-montreal-canadiens","16":"tag-montrealcanadiens","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","19":"tag-ottawa-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115948530912487620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425018","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=425018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}