{"id":539161,"date":"2026-03-16T01:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539161\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:48:07","slug":"canadiens-kirby-dach-exits-vs-ducks-after-high-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539161\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens&#8217; Kirby Dach exits vs. Ducks after high hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/kirby-dach\/74702ea1-5ba7-4d04-b9d6-164232a30dc7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirby Dach<\/a>&#8216;s night came to a very early end on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> forward won&#8217;t return against the Anaheim Ducks due to an upper-body injury, the team announced. <\/p>\n<p>Dach was injured following a high hit from Jeffrey Viel just over three minutes into the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old was visibly shaken and remained down on the ice for a few moments before heading to the locker room. <\/p>\n<p>Dach is in his fourth season with the Canadiens and has already been limited to just 31 games this year due to a fractured foot. <\/p>\n<p>Dach has eight goals and six assists in his limited appearances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirby Dach&#8216;s night came to a very early end on Sunday. The Montreal Canadiens forward won&#8217;t return against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-539161","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\/539161","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=539161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}