MONTREAL\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Canadiens dropped a 4-2 decision to the San Jose Sharks at the Bell Centre on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Cole\u00a0Caufield, who returned to the lineup after missing Wednesday\u2019s game with the flu, set a new career high in goals with his 38th\u00a0on\u00a0the campaign.\u00a0The 25-year-old winger is tied with Minnesota\u2019s Kirill\u00a0Kaprizov\u00a0in goals, as Colorado\u2019s Nathan Mackinnon occupies the first spot.<\/p>\n
In addition, it was Caufield\u2019s\u00a016th goal on a Saturday this season which is the most by a Canadiens player since Brian Bellows (16 G in 24 GP) in 1992-93. The last Canadiens player with more in a single campaign is Stephane Richer (24 G in 23 GP) in 1989-90.<\/p>\n
Kirby\u00a0Dach played in his 300th\u00a0NHL game tonight.<\/p>\n
Roster<\/p>\n
Head coach Martin St-Louis made a few changes to the lineup, including moving Alexandre Texier moved to the fourth\u00a0line\u00a0and\u00a0making\u00a0Brendan Gallagher\u00a0a\u00a0healthy scratch.\u00a0Jakub Dobes defended the cage for Montreal, making\u00a017\u00a0saves.\u00a0For more stats, check out the NHL\u2019s\u00a0Gamecenter\u00a0summary\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Canadiens dropped a 4-2 decision to the San Jose Sharks at the Bell Centre on Saturday. Cole\u00a0Caufield,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-537187","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\/537187","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=537187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}