{"id":647416,"date":"2026-05-03T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647416\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:26:08","slug":"canadiens-noah-dobson-a-game-time-decision-for-game-7-vs-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647416\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens&#8217; Noah Dobson a game-time decision for Game 7 vs. Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2013 <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> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/noah-dobson\/04ec54fd-f415-4bf9-9b7c-b25c2b9db179\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"04ec54fd-f415-4bf9-9b7c-b25c2b9db179\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Noah Dobson<\/a> is a game-time decision for Game 7 of their first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Martin St. Louis said at a morning availability that the team will determine his status after he participates in warm-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Dobson hasn\u2019t played since his left hand took the brunt of a Zach Werenski slap shot against the Columbus Blue Jackets on April 11. The team announced the following day he would be re-evaluated in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old from Summerside, P.E.I., has participated in Montreal\u2019s practises in the past week, appearing to handle the puck and shoot with comfort.<\/p>\n<p>His return would provide a significant boost for the Canadiens. He averaged the third-highest ice time (22 minutes 29 seconds) on the team this season, regularly handling top assignments on Montreal\u2019s top pair with Mike Matheson.<\/p>\n<p>Dobson also had 12 goals and 47 points in 80 games, with all but eight points coming at even strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 Montreal Canadiens defenceman Noah Dobson is a game-time decision for Game 7 of their first-round series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-647416","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\/647416","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=647416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}