{"id":945763,"date":"2026-10-30T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945763\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:34:09","slug":"canadiens-defenceman-mike-matheson-out-vs-stars-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945763\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson out vs. Stars with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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=\"nofollow noopener\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> will be down a veteran presence on the blue line against the Dallas Stars. <\/p>\n<p>Defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/mike-matheson\/e0990e42-1d77-4469-bd40-86e8d92f516d\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"e0990e42-1d77-4469-bd40-86e8d92f516d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Matheson<\/a> will not play Thursday night&#8217;s game with a lower-body injury and will be reevaluated when the team returns to Montreal, the Canadiens <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2115950175373901842?s=20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2115950175373901842?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> shortly before puck drop. <\/p>\n<p>Matheson recently returned to the lineup on Oct. 23 after a four-game absence with a lower-body injury. It&#8217;s unclear if the injuries are related. <\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has one goal and four points in eight games this season while averaging 23:45 per game. <\/p>\n<p>Matheson has excelled since joining the Canadiens in 2022-23. He surpassed 30 points every season, including a 62-point campaign in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-3-2 Canadiens have been tested early this season, as numerous key players have missed time with injuries, including captain Nick Suzuki, Ivan Demidov and Samuel Montembeault. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens will be down a veteran presence on the blue line against the Dallas Stars. Defenceman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-945763","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\/945763","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=945763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}