{"id":630155,"date":"2026-04-26T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630155\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:39:10","slug":"updates-from-optional-morning-skate-apr-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630155\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates from optional morning skate \u2013 Apr. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2013 Kirby Dach, Zachary Bolduc and Alexandre Texier weren\u2019t the likeliest source of offense heading into Game 3\u2013\u2013but they delivered in a big way.<\/p>\n<p>The three combined for six points and were on the ice for all of Montreal\u2019s goals in a 3-2 overtime win, breaking through when it matterest most. Quiet in Games 1 and 2, the trio found another gear and came through when the stakes were at their highest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt good. I think the way the three of us play, we can work off each other in the O-zone and understand where each other are going to be,\u201d said Dach, who assisted on Texier\u2019s opening goal and netted the game-tying marker on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us it\u2019s about sticking to what we need to do each and every time we\u2019re out there, building momentum and keep that momentum throughout the game,\u201d added the 6-foot-4 centerman Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Dach, Bolduc and Texier were part of the 21 players who participated in an optional morning skate at the Bell Centre ahead of Game 4 against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 Kirby Dach, Zachary Bolduc and Alexandre Texier weren\u2019t the likeliest source of offense heading into Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-630155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630155","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=630155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}