{"id":694042,"date":"2026-05-25T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694042\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:34:09","slug":"oliver-kapanen-out-of-canadiens-lineup-for-game-3-vs-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694042\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Kapanen out of Canadiens lineup for Game 3 vs. Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"e01e3a2e-7c20-4441-82df-e112a4e18418\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/oliver-kapanen\/e01e3a2e-7c20-4441-82df-e112a4e18418\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oliver Kapanen<\/a> won&#8217;t play Monday&#8217;s Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final against the Carolina Hurricanes (Sportsnet, 8 p.m. ET \/ 5 p.m. PT), head coach Martin St. Louis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2058936700852719686\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Centre Joe Veleno practised with the regulars during the morning skate and looks to be replacing Kapanen in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kappy (Oliver Kapanen) is going to be out tonight and it&#8217;s not necessarily for that (his turnover in OT of Game 2),&#8221; St. Louis told reporters. &#8220;We feel like Carolina bring a lot of heaviness and speed and I feel like Joey (Joe Veleno) can give us that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a solid rookie season with the Habs, Kapanen has struggled to carry over his production to the playoffs as he remains without a point in seven games. He has been in and out of the lineup throughout the post-season but had played in Montreal&#8217;s previous three games.<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday&#8217;s Game 2 overtime loss to Carolina, the Swede finished with a minus-2 in 10:01 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p>Veleno, meanwhile, hasn&#8217;t played since Game 6 of the second-round series against the Buffalo Sabres. In six games this post-season, the Montreal native has one assist and has averaged 9:40 of ice time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centre Oliver Kapanen won&#8217;t play Monday&#8217;s Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final against the Carolina Hurricanes (Sportsnet,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-694042","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\/694042","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=694042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}