{"id":295568,"date":"2025-11-20T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295568\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:03:11","slug":"encouraging-health-update-for-captain-nick-suzuki-ahead-of-game-vs-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295568\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging health update for captain Nick Suzuki ahead of game vs Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/616226.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nov 17, 2025; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Jet Greaves (73) makes a pad save from the shot of Montreal Canadiens center Nick Suzuki (14) during the shootout at Nationwide Arena. Mandatory Credit: Russell LaBounty-Imagn Images\" title=\"Nov 17, 2025; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Jet Greaves (73) makes a pad save from the shot of Montreal Canadiens center Nick Suzuki (14) during the shootout at Nationwide Arena. Mandatory Credit: Russell LaBounty-Imagn Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Russell LaBounty-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAt this point, pretty much all of Montreal knows that the captain of the Canadiens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Nick-Suzuki-43304\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Nick Suzuki profile and hockey stats\">Nick Suzuki<\/a>, suffered a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>So we were eager to see where Nick Suzuki was at today, after a few days off (including yesterday).<\/p>\n<p>Well, we just got the confirmation we were waiting for!<\/p>\n<p>Nick Suzuki was back at practice today!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though he&#8217;s not at 100%, captain Nick Suzuki is on the ice this morning in Brossard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Guillet<\/p>\n<p>This confirms that his injury is healing more and more, and it confirms that we will soon see the real Nick Suzuki again, which will be huge for the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not all&#8230; Not only was Suzuki back on the ice today, but he even put in extra time before practice and was among the first players to jump on the ice!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll take those good news moments, especially these days!<\/p>\n<p>The first player on the ice was obviously, yet again, young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Lane-Hutson-64600\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Lane Hutson profile and hockey stats\">Lane Hutson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope Suzuki finds his rhythm again and delivers a solid game against the Capitals tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Suzuki, 26 years old, has 21 points in 19 games this season, including 4 goals, which is obviously exceptional, especially considering he played some of those 19 games while being fairly seriously injured\/hampered.<\/p>\n<p>Lane Hutson, 21 years old, has 16 points in 19 games this season, including 2 goals, and he continues his momentum since arriving in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki and Hutson are, respectively, the 1st and 3rd highest scorers for the Montreal Canadiens this season (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Cole-Caufield-58171\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Cole Caufield profile and hockey stats\">Cole Caufield<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Ivan-Demidov-69097\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Ivan Demidov profile and hockey stats\">Ivan Demidov<\/a> are 2nd and 4th).<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Habs Fanatics<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Russell LaBounty-Imagn Images At this point, pretty much all of Montreal knows that the captain of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[24898,49,48,5718,10097,743,448,10099,82,9210],"class_list":["post-295568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brossard","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-injury","tag-lane-hutson","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nick-suzuki","tag-sports","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295568","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=295568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}