{"id":578400,"date":"2026-04-02T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578400\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:55:09","slug":"liveblog-canadiens-and-rangers-scoreless-after-first-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578400\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveblog: Canadiens and Rangers scoreless after first period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadiens (43-21-10) can extend their winning streak to seven games with a win over the New York Rangers (31-35-9) on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Puck drop at 7 p.m. (TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690, 98.5 FM).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens have won both games against the Rangers this season and can complete a season sweep tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Fowler will start in goal for the Habs. His last start was a 23-save performance in a win over the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Cole Caufield sits at 47 goals on the season with eight games remaining, including tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Does is matter which team <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/does-it-matter-which-team-the-canadiens-face-in-the-playoffs-hi-o-bonus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Canadiens face in the playoffs<\/a>? The Tampa Bay Lightning, Buffalo Sabres and Carolina Hurricanes are all potential opponents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/how-and-where-to-watch-the-canadiens-on-tv-for-2025-26-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How and where<\/a>\u00a0to watch the Canadiens on TV for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/blacked-out-on-sportsnet-or-rds-heres-how-to-watch-canadiens-games-from-ontario-and-western-canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Blacked out on TSN2 or RDS?<\/a>\u00a0Here\u2019s how to watch Canadiens games from Ontario and Western Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to this page for updates and game highlights throughout the evening. You can also keep the conversation going over on our livestream on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HabsInsideOut\/streams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>First Period: Scoreless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens (43-21-10) can extend their winning streak to seven games with a win over the New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-578400","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\/578400","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=578400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}