{"id":678959,"date":"2026-05-19T04:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678959\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:50:08","slug":"canadiens-oliver-kapanen-replaces-joe-veleno-for-game-7-vs-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678959\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens&#8217; Oliver Kapanen replaces Joe Veleno for Game 7 vs. Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"montreal-canadiens\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> are making a small adjustment ahead of their must-win Game 7 against the Buffalo Sabres. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/oliver-kapanen\/e01e3a2e-7c20-4441-82df-e112a4e18418\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"e01e3a2e-7c20-4441-82df-e112a4e18418\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oliver Kapanen<\/a>, 22, took warmups for the Canadiens in place of Joe Veleno, who was shaken up after a big hit in Game 6. Kapanen will slot into centre on the third line. <\/p>\n<p>The Timra, Sweden native played all 82 games for the Canadiens last season \u2014\u00a0his first full campaign in the NHL \u2014 scoring 22 goals and 37 points while averaging 14:28 per game. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s played just four games through two rounds this post-season, though, and has gone pointless in that time. <\/p>\n<p>Veleno, 26, has appeared in six games this post-season, recording one assist in that time. In 61 regular-season games, Veleno had two goals and five points. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the do-or-die Game 7 between the Canadiens and Sabres on Sportsnet at 7:30 pm. ET \/ 4:30 p.m. PT. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens are making a small adjustment ahead of their must-win Game 7 against the Buffalo Sabres.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-678959","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\/678959","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=678959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}