{"id":385469,"date":"2026-01-03T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:28:16","slug":"updates-from-optional-practice-jan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385469\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates from optional practice \u2013 Jan. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH \u2013 The Canadiens held their first practice of the new year on Friday \u2013\u2013 though in limited capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Following Montreal\u2019s dramatic 7-5 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday, the team was given the option to skate Friday in Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 14 players took to the ice, including Oliver Kapanen who, earlier Friday morning, was named to Finland\u2019s roster for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH \u2013 The Canadiens held their first practice of the new year on Friday \u2013\u2013 though in limited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-385469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385469","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=385469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}