{"id":300288,"date":"2025-11-21T23:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300288\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:53:10","slug":"montreal-canadiens-recall-f-florian-xhekaj-from-ahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300288\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens recall F Florian Xhekaj from AHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> have recalled forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/florian-xhekaj\/8484403\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/florian-xhekaj\/8484403\" target=\"_blank\">Florian Xhekaj<\/a> from the Laval Rocket of the AHL, the team announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">Erratum : Les Canadiens ont rappel\u00e9 l\u2019attaquant Florian Xhekaj du Rocket de Laval. Joshua Roy demeure avec les Canadiens. <\/p>\n<p>Erratum: The Canadiens have recalled Florian Xhekaj from the Laval Rocket. Joshua Roy remains with the Canadiens. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TaieDtFBif\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/TaieDtFBif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1992005655889367535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Xhekaj, 21, receives his first call-up to the National Hockey League. He has played 16 games for the Rocket this season, scoring two goals and two assists while tallying 44 penalty minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hamilton, Ont., native scored 24 goals and 35 points in 69 AHL games last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Florian is the younger brother of Canadiens\u2019 defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/arber-xhekaj\/8482964\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/arber-xhekaj\/8482964\" target=\"_blank\">Arber Xhekaj<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadiens are mired in a five-game winless streak and sit sixth in the Atlantic Division. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens have recalled forward Florian Xhekaj from the Laval Rocket of the AHL, the team announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,171712,143497,575,85],"class_list":["post-300288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-florian-xhekaj-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8484403","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}