{"id":484136,"date":"2026-03-04T04:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/484136\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T04:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:24:28","slug":"liveblog-kapanen-gives-canadiens-1-0-lead-on-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/484136\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveblog: Kapanen gives Canadiens 1-0 lead on Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Montreal Canadiens (33-17-9) play one more game in advance of this Friday\u2019s NHL trade deadline tonight against the San Jose Sharks (29-25-4) at SAP Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Habs fans in the eastern time zone will need to stay up late for this one: 10 p.m. puck drop (RDS, TSN2, 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>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. The livestream on our <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> will return on Friday vs. the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dobes has been hot entering Montreal\u2019s road trip in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Canadiens lineup tonight:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Caufield \u2013 Suzuki \u2013 Dach<br \/>Slafkovsky \u2013 Kapanen \u2013 Demidov<br \/>Newhook \u2013 Evans \u2013 Bolduc<br \/>Anderson \u2013 Danault \u2013 Gallagher<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Matheson \u2013 Guhle<br \/>Hutson \u2013 Dobson<br \/>Struble \u2013 Carrier<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oliver Kapanen opened scoring at 6:18 of the first period, using the Sharks defenceman as a screen off the rush to score his 19th of the season. Ivan Demidov and Juraj Slafkovsky with the assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens (33-17-9) play one more game in advance of this Friday\u2019s NHL trade deadline tonight against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[37568,2002,233,407,265,971,46353,57958,5,4528,976,17217,57957,264,21,5147,159,21580,4,548,975,1618,168,4230,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-484136","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-alexandre-texier","10":"tag-anaheim-ducks","11":"tag-arber-xhekaj","12":"tag-canadiens","13":"tag-cole-caufield","14":"tag-danault","15":"tag-eastern-time-zone","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-joe-veleno","18":"tag-juraj-slafkovsky","19":"tag-kapanen","20":"tag-linemate-kirby-dach","21":"tag-montreal","22":"tag-montreal-canadiens","23":"tag-montrealcanadiens","24":"tag-new-york-islanders","25":"tag-newhook","26":"tag-nhl","27":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","28":"tag-nick-suzuki","29":"tag-oliver-kapanen","30":"tag-san-jose-sharks","31":"tag-sap-center","32":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116169006411487329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484136","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=484136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}