{"id":507169,"date":"2026-03-01T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507169\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:27:40","slug":"wshmtl-game-recap-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507169\/","title":{"rendered":"WSH@MTL: Game recap | Montr\u00e9al Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2013 Cole Caufield scored twice, Jakub Dobes mades 27 saves and the Canadiens thumped the Capitals 6-2 at the Bell Centre on Saturday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cole Caufield show\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following a two-goal performance, Caufield brought himself within five goals of the 40-goal mark with his 34th and 35th tallies of the campaign. He also tied Nathan Mackinnon for the most goals scored on a Saturday night this season (15). If that weren\u2019t enough, he also scored his 20th and 21st go-ahead goal of the season and established a Canadiens record for most in a single campaign, surpassing Guy Lafleur (20 in 1977-78).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more stats, check out the NHL\u2019s Gamecenter summary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/gamecenter\/mtl-vs-wsh\/2026\/02\/28\/2025020940\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating Black excellence\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens celebrated Black excellence in honor of Black History Month. In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/canadiens\/news\/canadiens-celebrate-black-excellence-feb-27-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a specially designed Habs logo,<\/a> the team also invited local R&amp;B artist No\u00eblly to perform the national anthems and held other activations at the Bell Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Honoring Canadian Olympians\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between the two national anthems, a group of Canadian Olympians were honored during a pregame ceremony at center ice. Among them were Mika\u00ebl Kingsbury, Courtney Sarault and F\u00e9lix Roussel, in addition to Nick Suzuki and Capitals forward Tom Wilson and goaltender Logan Thompson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 Cole Caufield scored twice, Jakub Dobes mades 27 saves and the Canadiens thumped the Capitals 6-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-507169","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\/507169","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=507169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}