{"id":539878,"date":"2026-03-16T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539878\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:58:09","slug":"montreal-canadiens-forward-kirby-dach-exits-vs-anaheim-ducks-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539878\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens forward Kirby Dach exits vs. Anaheim Ducks with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONTREAL \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirby-dach\/8481523\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirby-dach\/8481523\" target=\"_blank\">Kirby Dach<\/a> left Sunday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> with an upper-body injury following a high hit from winger Jeffrey Viel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Viel caught an unsuspecting Dach in Anaheim\u2019s end three minutes into the first period after the Canadiens forward swatted at a puck with his arm but missed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dach fell to the ice with his face in his gloves before gingerly making his way to the bench, and eventually to the dressing room. The officials did not call a penalty on the play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canadiens defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/arber-xhekaj\/8482964\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/arber-xhekaj\/8482964\" target=\"_blank\">Arber Xhekaj<\/a> and forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/josh-anderson\/8476981\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/josh-anderson\/8476981\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Anderson<\/a> approached Viel later in the period, but the Ducks forward declined apparent requests to fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dach has eight goals and six assists through 31 games this season, his fourth in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old from Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. \u2014 a third overall draft pick in 2019 \u2014 already missed time with a fractured foot this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Montreal Canadiens forward Kirby Dach left Sunday\u2019s game against the Anaheim Ducks with an upper-body injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-539878","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\/539878","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=539878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}