{"id":555829,"date":"2026-03-23T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555829\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:36:10","slug":"caufield-named-nhls-third-star-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555829\/","title":{"rendered":"Caufield named NHL\u2019s third star of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2013 The NHL announced on Monday that Canadiens forward Cole Caufield is the League\u2019s third star of the week for the period ending on March 22,\u00a02026.<\/p>\n<p>Caufield, 25, registered eight points\u00a0(4G, 4A)\u00a0in three games last week. On Tuesday, the winger scored the overtime winner against the Boston Bruins to hit the 40-goal milestone in a single season\u00a0for the first time in his career. He also became the first Habs player to achieve the feat since Vincent Damphousse during the 1993-94 season.<\/p>\n<p>After picking up an assist in Thursday\u2019s loss in Detroit, Caufield finished the week on a high note with a five-point outing, including a hat trick, in Saturday\u2019s win against the New York Islanders. It was his second hat trick of the season, and third of his career. Caufield\u2019s\u00a043 goals\u00a0so far this season rank second in the NHL, two behind Nathan MacKinnon\u00a0(45).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 The NHL announced on Monday that Canadiens forward Cole Caufield is the League\u2019s third star of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-555829","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\/555829","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=555829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}