{"id":267365,"date":"2025-11-07T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267365\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:12:08","slug":"devils-dougie-hamilton-exits-early-vs-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267365\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils&#8217; Dougie Hamilton exits early vs. Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"new-jersey-devils\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/new-jersey-devils\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> played the third period and overtime against the Montreal Canadiens without one of their top defencemen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/dougie-hamilton\/42ee4e8e-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"42ee4e8e-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dougie Hamilton<\/a> exited Thursday&#8217;s game before the final frame against the Canadiens after having played just 10:09. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not immediately clear what happened, but his final shift of the game came about five minutes into the second period and he did not return for the Devils&#8217; 4-3 win in overtime. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach Sheldon Keefe had no update on Hamilton after the game and said he will be evaluated on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, 32, has played 13 games for the Devils this season and has four goals and three assists while averaging 21:41 of ice time. <\/p>\n<p>He was limited to just 62 games last season after suffering a season-ending lower-body injury in March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Devils played the third period and overtime against the Montreal Canadiens without one of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-267365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267365","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=267365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}