{"id":919585,"date":"2026-10-03T22:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919585\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:48:13","slug":"former-montreal-canadiens-defenceman-lyle-odelein-dies-at-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919585\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Montreal Canadiens defenceman Lyle Odelein dies at 58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> announced on Saturday that former defenceman Lyle Odelein has passed away at the age of 58.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Odelein was a member of the Canadiens squad that won the Stanley Cup in 1993. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A seventh-round pick (141st overall) by Montreal in 1986, Odelein spent six full seasons with the Canadiens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His last NHL season came in 2005-26 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>, appearing in just 27 games due to a knee injury before retiring from professional hockey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Odelein was also the first captain in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> history in 2000-01 after being claimed in the expansion draft from the Phoenix Coyotes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Quill Lake, Sask., native skated in 1,056 career NHL games, scoring 50 goals with 252 points and 2,316 penalty minutes split between the Canadiens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>, Coyotes, Blue Jackets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> and Penguins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens announced on Saturday that former defenceman Lyle Odelein has passed away at the age of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,78846,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-919585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","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\/919585","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=919585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}