{"id":499178,"date":"2026-02-25T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499178\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:26:11","slug":"lines-and-defense-pairings-at-practice-feb-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499178\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines and defense pairings at practice \u2013 Feb. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROSSARD \u2013 It was the surest sign yet that the Olympic break has come to an end: the Canadiens held a full practice at the CN Sports Complex, with all 24 players hitting the ice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Nick Suzuki, who picked up a silver medal with Team Canada at Milano Cortina 2026, and Juraj Slafkovsky, who helped Slovakia reach the bronze-medal game in Italy, were back with their teammates for the first time since the tournament ended.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the lines and defense pairings featured by head coach Martin St-Louis:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROSSARD \u2013 It was the surest sign yet that the Olympic break has come to an end: the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-499178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499178","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=499178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}