{"id":542847,"date":"2026-04-05T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542847\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:05:12","slug":"liveblog-cole-caufield-still-looking-for-50th-goal-as-canadiens-host-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542847\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveblog: Cole Caufield still looking for 50th goal as Canadiens host Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montreal Canadiens (45-21-10) may have already clinched a playoff berth earlier today, but they can still make moves in the standings with a win over the New Jersey Devils (39-34-3) Sunday at the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n

Puck drop at 7 p.m. (TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690, 98.5 FM)<\/p>\n

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

The Canadiens punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup playoffs<\/a> earlier today when the Detroit Red Wings lost to the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n

The Habs and Devils played each other last night. The Canadiens won 4-3 on the road in a shootout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Forward Cole Caufield scored in said shootout on Saturday, but is still looking for his 50th goal on the season.<\/p>\n

Jacob Fowler will start in goal. Otherwise no lineup changes from Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Habs begin a four-game homestand. They\u2019ve won eight in a row, including all five games on their recent road trip.<\/p>\n

How and where<\/a>\u00a0to watch the Canadiens on TV for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

Blacked out on TSN2 or RDS?<\/a>\u00a0Here\u2019s how to watch Canadiens games from Ontario and Western Canada.<\/p>\n

No livestream tonight on the\u00a0Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel<\/a>. The livestream will return on Tuesday when the Florida Panthers visit the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n

First Period:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens (45-21-10) may have already clinched a playoff berth earlier today, but they can still make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,5,264,21,5147,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-542847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-montrealcanadiens","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116354608700053542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542847","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=542847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}