{"id":680187,"date":"2026-10-06T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/680187\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:15:16","slug":"canadiens-forward-ivan-demidov-out-2-4-weeks-with-lower-body-injury-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/680187\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens forward Ivan Demidov out 2-4 weeks with lower-body injury | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8211; Montreal Canadiens forward Ivan Demidov will be sidelined for two to four weeks with a lower-body injury, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Demidov missed Monday&#8217;s practice for what the team initially called a therapy day.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old has a goal and an assist in two games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Demidov led all NHL rookies with 62 points last season, scoring 19 goals and adding 43 assists in 82 games, and was a finalist for the Calder Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal selected Demidov fifth overall in the 2024 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens host the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL &#8211; Montreal Canadiens forward Ivan Demidov will be sidelined for two to four weeks with a lower-body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[5,6,638,21,285,1355,1357,4,60,5945,5950,1354,1361,24377,43,14,104,718,1353,1356],"class_list":["post-680187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-playoffs","category-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey","tag-ivan-demidov","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-national-hockey-league-teams","tag-national-hockey-league-trophies-and-awards","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-nhl-seasons","tag-nhl-team-seasons","tag-seasons-in-american-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-canadian-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-ice-hockey","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl","tag-top-level-sports-leagues","tag-top-tier-ice-hockey-leagues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117394625245379730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680187","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=680187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}