{"id":241049,"date":"2025-10-26T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/241049\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:19:10","slug":"new-footage-shows-martin-st-louis-priceless-reaction-after-arber-xhekajs-awful-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/241049\/","title":{"rendered":"New Footage Shows Martin St-Louis&#8217; Priceless Reaction After Arber Xhekaj&#8217;s Awful Penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nNew Footage Shows Martin St-Louis&#8217; Priceless Reaction After Arber Xhekaj&#8217;s Awful Penalties <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/608551.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo of Arber Xhekaj\" title=\"Photo of Arber Xhekaj\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: NHL\/Habsfanatics<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDuring the second period of the game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Vancouver Canucks, young defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Arber-Xhekaj-60284\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Arber Xhekaj profile and hockey stats\">Arber Xhekaj<\/a> took a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>And according to most experts, it was a very bad one:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Awful penalty to take by Xhekaj there..&#8221;<br \/>&#8211; Karine Hains, The Hockey News<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arber man.. you are not helping yourself with that.&#8221;<br \/>&#8211; HFTV<\/p>\n<p>After that, everyone was talking about Martin St-Louis&#8217;s reaction on the Canadiens&#8217; bench following Xhekaj&#8217;s bad penalty &#8211; but the video seemed impossible to find, so here it is!<\/p>\n<p>Things are going to get heated in Martin St-Louis&#8217;s office: the Montreal Canadiens head coach seems fed up with Arber Xhekaj&#8217;s bad penalties<\/p>\n<p>More and more, it feels like Xhekaj might be headed for the press box once Guhle returns. It even seems like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Jayden-Struble-54956\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Jayden Struble profile and hockey stats\">Jayden Struble<\/a> has passed him on the depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>Arber Xhekaj, 24, is a 6-foot-4, 240-pound left-shot defenseman who was never drafted into the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>He has 30 career points and 311 penalty minutes in 173 games played with the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Xhekaj has 1 point in 8 games, with 11 penalty minutes (prior to tonight&#8217;s game, of course).<\/p>\n<p>And you &#8211; what&#8217;s your opinion on Arber Xhekaj&#8217;s performances over the past few games?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to hear what Martin St-Louis has to say about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if St-Louis goes back with Xhekaj for next game against Seattle or if he will bring in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Marc-Del-Gaizo-62548\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Marc Del Gaizo profile and hockey stats\">Marc Del Gaizo<\/a> to send the Sheriff a message.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured, we&#8217;ll have you covered with the latest updates.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Habs Fanatics<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHABSFANATICS.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; New Footage Shows Martin St-Louis&#8217; Priceless Reaction After Arber Xhekaj&#8217;s Awful Penalties &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[27038,49,48,10397,743,448,80665,23803,82,452],"class_list":["post-241049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-arber-xhekaj","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-martin-st-louis","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-penalties","tag-referee","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}