{"id":505922,"date":"2026-02-28T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505922\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:22:49","slug":"canadiens-bolduc-struble-draw-into-lineup-against-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505922\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens’ Bolduc, Struble draw into lineup against Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

After dropping their first post-Olympic game, the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> are making some changes.<\/p>\n

Zachary Bolduc<\/a> and Jayden Struble<\/a> will draw into the lineup on Saturday against the Washington Capitals, head coach Martin St. Louis confirmed.<\/p>\n

Live coverage of Canadiens-Capitals begins at 7 p.m. ET \/ 4 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n

Bolduc and Struble were both scratched for the Canadiens’ 4-3 overtime loss to the New York Islanders on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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The 23-year-old Bolduc has 10 goals and 13 assists in 57 games on the season. He originally came out of the lineup to make room for Alex Newhook.<\/p>\n

Struble, 24, has eight points \u2014 all assists \u2014 in 39 games.<\/p>\n

Texier, who joined the Canadiens in November, has just two assists in his past seven games. For the season, which he began with an eight-game stint with the St. Louis Blues, the Frenchman owns seven goals and 12 assists in 39 appearances.<\/p>\n

He signed a two-year, $5 million contract extension with the Canadiens in January.<\/p>\n

Xhekaj, the 25-year-old enforcer, has two points (one goal, one assist) in 51 games.<\/p>\n

Montreal occupies the first Eastern Conference wild-card spot ahead of Saturday’s action, four points clear of the Capitals, who have won three straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After dropping their first post-Olympic game, the Montreal Canadiens are making some changes. Zachary Bolduc and Jayden Struble…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-505922","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\/505922","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=505922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}