{"id":481660,"date":"2026-02-17T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481660\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:48:08","slug":"canadiens-newhook-returns-to-practice-laine-doesnt-skate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481660\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens&#8217; Newhook returns to practice, Laine doesn&#8217;t skate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/alex-newhook\/2b6963fd-3924-42c4-be6d-753087d2498f\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"2b6963fd-3924-42c4-be6d-753087d2498f\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex Newhook<\/a>, who&#8217;d been skating individually for the past few weeks, rejoined team practice on Tuesday, while winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/patrik-laine\/55bfd682-4e66-4043-96b7-adc4aab4a39d\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"55bfd682-4e66-4043-96b7-adc4aab4a39d\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Patrik Laine<\/a> remained absent as he recovers from a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Newhook&#8217;s return to team practice marks just over three months since he was sidelined due to a fractured ankle and subsequent surgery \u2014 approaching the four-month recovery timeline initially announced by the team.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old last played on Nov. 13, when the injury occurred, and totalled six goals, six assists and a plus-seven mark through 17 appearances before he was sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>As for Laine, the Canadiens continue to evaluate his status on a daily basis. The 27-year-old has only played in five games this season due to the lingering injury, logging one assist and a minus-three mark in that span. He last played on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Laine was the only Habs player not currently in Milano Cortina for the Olympics who was absent from team practice on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens return to action on Feb. 26, when they host the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centre Alex Newhook, who&#8217;d been skating individually for the past few weeks, rejoined team practice on Tuesday, while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-481660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481660","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=481660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}