{"id":439290,"date":"2026-02-01T05:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/439290\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:38:15","slug":"montreal-canadiens-alexandre-texier-misses-game-against-buffalo-sabres-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/439290\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens&#8217; Alexandre Texier misses game against Buffalo Sabres with lower-body injury"},"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> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alexandre-texier\/8480074\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alexandre-texier\/8480074\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandre Texier<\/a> was a late scratch Saturday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> due to a lower-body injury, the team announced prior to puck drop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Forward Joe Veleno will replace him in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">L&#8217;attaquant Alexandre Texier ne participera pas au match de ce soir en raison d&#8217;une blessure au bas du corps. Joe Veleno le remplacera dans la formation.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Alexander Texier will not play in tonight&#8217;s game due to a lower-body injury. Joe Veleno will replace him in the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2017744249567973786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Texier skated on the top line at Saturday morning\u2019s session alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-caufield-390746\/8481540\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-caufield-390746\/8481540\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Caufield<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nick-suzuki\/8480018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nick-suzuki\/8480018\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Suzuki<\/a>. The team did not say when he incurred the injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Texier was named to Team France for the upcoming Olympics in Milan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old has seven goals and 17 points in 30 games this season for the Habs since being signed as a free agent after he was released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He then signed a two-year, $5 million contract extension earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of St. Martin D\u2019heres, France, Texier is a veteran of seven NHL seasons split between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>, Blues and Canadiens. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens forward Alexandre Texier was a late scratch Saturday against the Buffalo Sabres due to a lower-body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44488,4759,5,33168,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-439290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-alexandre-texier-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8480074","9":"tag-apple-news","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","12":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115993765717617972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439290","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=439290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}