{"id":422281,"date":"2026-01-20T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422281\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:12:10","slug":"updates-from-optional-morning-skate-jan-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422281\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates from optional morning skate \u2013 Jan. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news, however, was accompanied by another injury announcement: forward Alexandre Texier will not face the Wild, as he\u2019s currently day-to-day with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>St-Louis also announced that Jakub Dobes will get the start on Tuesday, and that Jayden Struble will draw in for Arber Xhekaj on the backend.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens held an optional morning skate at the Bell Centre in preparation for the game, although only a handful of players did not take part.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the group that skated:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The good news, however, was accompanied by another injury announcement: forward Alexandre Texier will not face the Wild,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-422281","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\/422281","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=422281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}