{"id":662236,"date":"2026-05-11T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:45:10","slug":"caufield-shines-for-canadiens-in-front-of-australian-fans-in-game-3-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662236\/","title":{"rendered":"Caufield shines for Canadiens in front of Australian fans in Game 3 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens forward, who scored an NHL career-high 51 times during the regular season, had just one goal through the first nine games of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. And he must have felt as if he might never score again after missing a couple of open nets early in the second period of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/playoffs\/buffalo-sabres-montreal-canadiens-game-3-recap-may-10-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal\u2019s 6-2 victory against the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Second Round on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>So, imagine his relief when he finally put the puck into the net and gave the Canadiens a 2-1 lead at 6:05 of the second period, a lead they would not relinquish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it feels good,\u201d Caufield said. \u201cBut yeah, the team\u2019s been winning and guys have been stepping up, and that\u2019s been really big for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve just tried to be a good teammate and do what I can do to help the team win. Everybody\u2019s been kind of picking me up, so it feels good to get one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he finally did, he raised his arms and peered up into the stands at Bell Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he was looking for his good luck charms named Perry Linton, a resident of Australia\u2019s Gold Coast, and Elisa Verdy, a Montrealer who moved down under more than a year ago to be with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, I would teach her how to surf,\u201d Perry said. \u201cWe\u2019d basically surf in the morning, go to the beach and then we basically would come home and turn on the Habs. She taught me all about hockey and the Habs, and I basically began falling in love with the game and with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens forward, who scored an NHL career-high 51 times during the regular season, had just one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-662236","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\/662236","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=662236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}