{"id":486820,"date":"2026-03-05T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486820\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:16:18","slug":"canadiens-visit-the-ducks-after-newhooks-2-goal-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486820\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens visit the Ducks after Newhook’s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montreal Canadiens<\/a> (33-18-9, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks<\/a> (34-24-3, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Friday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens visit the Anaheim Ducks after Alexander Newhook’s two-goal game against the San Jose Sharks<\/a> in the Canadiens’ 7-5 loss.<\/p>\n

Anaheim is 34-24-3 overall and 21-9-1 at home. The Ducks have gone 15-7-2 when they commit fewer penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n

Montreal has a 33-18-9 record overall and a 16-7-7 record on the road. The Canadiens have a 30-7-8 record in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Cutter Gauthier<\/a> has 31 goals and 24 assists for the Ducks. Beckett Sennecke<\/a> has five goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Cole Caufield<\/a> has 35 goals and 25 assists for the Canadiens. Nicholas Suzuki has four goals and 10 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Ducks: 7-3-0, averaging 3.5 goals, 6.1 assists, 2.7 penalties and 5.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Canadiens: 5-3-2, averaging 4.1 goals, 6.9 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Ducks: None listed.<\/p>\n

Canadiens: None listed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens (33-18-9, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (34-24-3, in the Pacific Division) Anaheim, California; Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[233,1199,265,971,511,56683,5,264,21,5147,285,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-486820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-beckett-sennecke","10":"tag-canadiens","11":"tag-cole-caufield","12":"tag-cutter-gauthier","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-montreal","16":"tag-montreal-canadiens","17":"tag-montrealcanadiens","18":"tag-national-hockey-league","19":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116176288724162142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486820","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=486820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}