{"id":543008,"date":"2026-03-16T00:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543008\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:57:08","slug":"canadiens-brendan-gallagher-back-in-lineup-vs-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543008\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens&#8217; Brendan Gallagher back in lineup vs. Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> forward will return to the lineup on Sunday against the Anaheim Ducks. <\/p>\n<p>Gallagher was healthy scratched for the first time in his career in Saturday&#8217;s loss to the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has appeared in 64 games this season, putting up six goals and 14 assists with a minus-one mark.<\/p>\n<p>Defenceman Arber Xhekaj is also back in Montreal&#8217;s lineup on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Zachary Bolduc and Jayden Struble will be scratched in favour of Gallagher and Xhekaj.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Fowler will get the start in between the pipes on the second night of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens forward will return to the lineup on Sunday against the Anaheim Ducks. Gallagher was healthy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-543008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543008","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=543008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}