{"id":498856,"date":"2026-03-12T00:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/498856\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:24:48","slug":"canadiens-cole-caufield-out-with-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/498856\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens’ Cole Caufield Out With Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montreal Canadiens winger Cole Caufield<\/a> will miss<\/a> Wednesday night\u2019s game against the Ottawa Senators due to illness. He will be replaced by Alexandre Texier<\/a> per Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Caufield has scored four goals and six points in his last five games. His absence will be a heavy blow as Montreal steps up to a Atlantic Division matchup. It will also be a major opportunity for Texier, who hasn\u2019t stepped into the lineup since February 26th. He scored six points in his first 11 games with the Canadiens, then went on a run for 10 points in seven games, with the two stints split by a six-game scoring drought.<\/p>\n

But Texier has fallen into another lull, with only two points in his last seven games, dating back to January 13th. He could have a prime chance to snap that cold spell as he steps into a top-nine role in Caufield\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

Montreal will rotate Texier with Alex Newhook<\/a>, Zachary Bolduc<\/a>, and Josh Anderson<\/a> on the left-wing. All four have run into hot-and-cold streaks this season, which could put a lot of weight on Nick Suzuki<\/a>, Juraj Slafkovsky<\/a>, and Ivan Demidov<\/a> to carry the scoring.<\/p>\n

Montreal will also be relying on rookie goaltender Jacob Fowler<\/a> after scratching Sam Montembeault<\/a>. The weakened Canadiens lineup could present a good chance for Ottawa to begin clawing their way up the standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens winger Cole Caufield will miss Wednesday night\u2019s game against the Ottawa Senators due to illness. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5104],"tags":[971,5,21,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-498856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-cole-caufield","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal-canadiens","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-ottawa","13":"tag-ottawa-senators","14":"tag-ottawasenators","15":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116213363950475322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498856","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=498856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}