{"id":652714,"date":"2026-05-07T01:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652714\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:15:09","slug":"joe-veleno-makes-nhl-playoff-debut-for-canadiens-in-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652714\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Veleno makes NHL playoff debut for Canadiens in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778116509_598_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens forward Joe Veleno in against against the Flyers in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo\/Derik Hamilton)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 6, 2026 | 5:07 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO \u2014 Joe Veleno made his NHL playoff debut for the Canadiens on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal native took the spot of veteran winger Brendan Gallagher in the lineup for Game 1 of the club\u2019s second-round series against the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>Veleno put up two goals and three assists across 61 games in his first season with the Canadiens in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>Bruising defenceman Arber Xhekaj re-entered the fray at KeyBank Center after sitting Game 7 of Montreal\u2019s opening-round victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning with Noah Dobson back from injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens forward Joe Veleno in against against the Flyers in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-652714","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\/652714","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=652714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}