{"id":579107,"date":"2026-05-20T01:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/579107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:33:19","slug":"riot-police-use-tear-gas-against-canadiens-fans-in-downtown-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/579107\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot police use tear gas against Canadiens fans in downtown Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens clinched a berth in the Eastern Conference Final thanks to a Game 7 victory over the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo last night.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, the streets of Montreal were full of celebrating fans last night, but it wasn&#8217;t all fun and merriment in La Belle Province. There were reports late yesterday evening that riot police had been deployed in downtown Montreal after some fans got a bit too rowdy.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from the Montreal Gazette, police were even forced to use tear gas on some unruly fans.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, the timeless combination of youthful exuberance and an abundance of alcohol. Some things never change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens clinched a berth in the Eastern Conference Final thanks to a Game 7 victory over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[229,265,64577,5,264,21,5147,4,64586,64587,11362],"class_list":["post-579107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-canadiens","tag-downtown-montreal","tag-hockey","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-nhl","tag-riot-police","tag-tear-gas","tag-the-montreal-gazette"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116604331886326755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579107","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=579107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}