{"id":561727,"date":"2026-04-28T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/561727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:30:17","slug":"mike-mathesons-early-skate-with-injured-noah-dobson-raises-concern-before-canadiens-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/561727\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Matheson\u2019s early skate with injured Noah Dobson raises concern before Canadiens practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nMike Matheson\u2019s early skate with injured Noah Dobson raises concern before Canadiens practice    &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Hockey Fanatics has no direct affiliation to the Montreal Canadiens, NHL or NHLPA<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/662137.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo of Mike Matheson and Noah Dobson at Canadiens practice in Brossard\" title=\"Photo of Mike Matheson and Noah Dobson at Canadiens practice in Brossard\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>A concerning scene at the Brossard training complex this morning for Montreal Canadiens fans.<\/p>\n<p>Dobson has been listed day-to-day with an upper-body injury since the start of the series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>He has not played a single game in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing Matheson skating alongside him, away from the main group, raises questions.<\/p>\n<p>Is the 32-year-old defenseman dealing with an issue?<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Guillet was the first to report Matheson\u2019s presence on the ice with Dobson, questioning whether it was normal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mike Matheson joins Noah Dobson. Is it normal for the defenseman to be on the ice an hour before practice?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Patrick Guillet<\/p>\n<p>Maxime Truman then shared the news, asking the question directly: \u201cShould we be worried?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Canadiens cannot afford to lose Mike Matheson in the middle of this series<\/p>\n<p>Matheson has played in all four games of the series and is the most-used defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens under head coach Martin St-Louis.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, he logged more than 23 minutes of ice time.<\/p>\n<p>Losing Matheson would significantly weaken the Canadiens\u2019 defensive corps.<\/p>\n<p>He does appear to be dealing with something, having recently required treatment days, and now this!<\/p>\n<p>Will Matheson join the group for regular practice?<\/p>\n<p>We should have answers in the next few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a situation to monitor very closely ahead of Game 5, Wednesday night in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Montreal Hockey Fanatics<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>18 MINUTES AGO|18 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Mike Matheson\u2019s early skate with injured Noah Dobson raises concern before Canadiens practice<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Mike Matheson is injured?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Mike Matheson\u2019s early skate with injured Noah Dobson raises concern before Canadiens practice &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[45486,265,5,412,1941,264,21,5147,4,778,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-561727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-brossard-practice","9":"tag-canadiens","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-martin-st-louis","12":"tag-michael-matheson","13":"tag-montreal","14":"tag-montreal-canadiens","15":"tag-montrealcanadiens","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-noah-dobson","18":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116482817090247971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561727","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=561727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}