{"id":372435,"date":"2025-12-26T06:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:21:08","slug":"snapshots-evans-misa-horvat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372435\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots: Evans, Misa, Horvat"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Canadiens have not provided an injury update on Jake Evans<\/a> after he was injured on Saturday against Pittsburgh in a knee-on-knee collision, it appears they\u2019ve avoided the worst-case scenario, according to Sportsnet\u2019s Eric Engels<\/a>.\u00a0 However, he could still be facing somewhat of an extended absence.\u00a0 In the first season of a four-year, $11.4MM contract signed near the trade deadline last season, the veteran has seen his production taper off as he has five goals and five assists through 34 games.\u00a0 He had been playing a big role defensively although the addition of Phillip Danault<\/a> last week was in part intended to give him some help on that front.\u00a0 Instead, it\u2019ll be a while before Montreal gets to have both of them on the ice but it appears that Evans\u2019 injury could have been much worse than it was.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere around the hockey world:<\/p>\n

While forward Michael Misa<\/a> left Canada\u2019s World Junior pre-tournament game on Tuesday due to injury, it shouldn\u2019t keep him out of the lineup when things get underway on Friday, relays TSN\u2019s Mark Masters<\/a>. Misa was a late arrival after being loaned out by the Sharks and has only played in seven games this season where he has three points.\u00a0 San Jose still has to decide if they\u2019re going to bring the 18-year-old back after the tournament or loan him back to junior and not officially begin the first year of his entry-level contract.\u00a0 If there are any lingering injury concerns by the time this tournament ends, that would certainly play a big role in their decision.
\nIslanders center Bo Horvat<\/a> is tracking toward returning on Saturday from his lower-body injury, according to Stefan Rosner in his latest post for The Elmonters<\/a>. He has missed the last two weeks with the issue and initially was expected to miss three weeks so if he is back this weekend, he\u2019ll be a bit ahead of schedule.\u00a0 The 30-year-old leads the Isles in goals (19) and points (31) in 32 games and his performance is believed to have him in consideration for one of the final spots on Canada\u2019s Olympic roster.\u00a0 Showing that he\u2019s fully recovered from the injury could help his cause before rosters are due to be submitted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Canadiens have not provided an injury update on Jake Evans after he was injured on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,133855,201378,25925,5790,5791,575,7527,31034,85],"class_list":["post-372435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bo-horvat","tag-jake-evans","tag-michael-misa","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-snapshots","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372435","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=372435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}