{"id":628813,"date":"2026-04-26T00:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628813\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:47:14","slug":"updates-from-optional-practice-apr-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628813\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates from optional practice &#8211; Apr. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes of the day\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just believe in our system, all my teammates and coaching staff. I feel like we\u2019re all prepared for any scenario. I feel like we play our way, and we have the puck a lot, and we\u2019re good defensively. I feel like we can for sure win a game tomorrow.\u201d &#8211; Juraj Slafkovsky on his belief in the team\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone needs to step up in the playoffs. You can see that, in different games, a different person brought us success, and that\u2019s what it takes.\u201d &#8211; Mike Matheson on the Canadiens taking Game 3 and what that says about the group\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve established a family spirit. When things like that happen, I think it galvanizes the group. We support each other. It\u2019s important.\u201d &#8211; Martin St-Louis on the team uniting around Kirby Dach\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 between the Habs and Bolts is set for Sunday at 7:00 p.m. For those in Montreal, the Canadiens are hosting the Fan Jam presented by La Cage outside the Bell Centre, open to all from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. ET. For more details, click <a href=\"https:\/\/series.canadiens.com\/en\/#fanjam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. For tickets to the game, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ca\/event\/310064829B0C7825?lang=en-ca&amp;utm_source=chc-web&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=CHCContent&amp;utm_content=EN-0425-Practice&amp;artistid=805975&amp;brand=canadiens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quotes of the day\u00a0 \u201cI just believe in our system, all my teammates and coaching staff. I feel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-628813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628813","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=628813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}