{"id":446117,"date":"2026-02-05T00:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446117\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:59:17","slug":"liveblog-jets-jump-to-1-0-lead-on-montembeault-and-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446117\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveblog: Jets jump to 1-0 lead on Montembeault and Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montreal Canadiens (31-17-8) play their final game before the break for the Winter Olympics against the Winnipeg Jets (22-25-8) on Wednesday at Canada Life Centre.<\/p>\n

Puck drop at 7 p.m. (Sportsnet, RDS, TSN Radio 690, 98.5 FM).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n

After tonight, the Canadiens don\u2019t play again until Feb. 26 against the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n

Samuel Montembeault gets the start in goal after Jakub Dobes started four in a row. Montembeault last played on Jan. 24.<\/p>\n

The Habs are 3-0-1 in their last four games.<\/p>\n

Former Jet Patrik Laine is close to returning from injury, but it won\u2019t be tonight against his old club.<\/p>\n

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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 Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All Jets early in the first period. With Josh Anderson in the box, Kyle Connor scored his 25th of the season to give Winnipeg a 1-0 lead. At one point the Jets led 8-0 in shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens (31-17-8) play their final game before the break for the Winter Olympics against the Winnipeg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[37568,407,4056,265,5,909,410,783,1290,264,21,5147,159,4,640,906,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-446117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-98-5-fm","9":"tag-arber-xhekaj","10":"tag-canada-life-centre","11":"tag-canadiens","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-jakub-dobes","14":"tag-jayden-struble","15":"tag-josh-anderson","16":"tag-kyle-connor","17":"tag-montreal","18":"tag-montreal-canadiens","19":"tag-montrealcanadiens","20":"tag-new-york-islanders","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-patrik-laine","23":"tag-samuel-montembeault","24":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116015317898776281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446117","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=446117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}