{"id":571250,"date":"2026-03-29T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:15:07","slug":"canadiens-josh-anderson-exits-game-vs-predators-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571250\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens&#8217; Josh Anderson exits game vs. Predators due to illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/josh-anderson\/176ff74a-1206-49c3-8815-20df861b8ffb\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"176ff74a-1206-49c3-8815-20df861b8ffb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Josh Anderson<\/a> couldn&#8217;t finish Saturday night&#8217;s game against the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson left the contest in the second period and was later <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2038062621421621337?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">ruled out<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"montreal-canadiens\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> due to what the team deemed an illness. <\/p>\n<p>He played just one shift at the start of the middle frame, recording 4:53 of ice time before exiting.<\/p>\n<p>Entering Saturday&#8217;s game, the 31-year-old Burlington, Ont., native had posted 22 points (13 goals and nine assists) in 68 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens&#8217; next game is on Sunday against the Carolina Hurricanes in the second half of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Anderson couldn&#8217;t finish Saturday night&#8217;s game against the Nashville Predators. Anderson left the contest in the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-571250","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\/571250","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=571250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}