{"id":931496,"date":"2026-10-13T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931496\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:16:18","slug":"canadiens-promote-owen-beck-from-laval-as-florian-xhekaj-leaves-practice-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931496\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens promote Owen Beck from Laval as Florian Xhekaj leaves practice early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadiens announced Monday afternoon that they have called up forward Owen Beck from the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move comes after forward Florian Xhekaj missed Saturday night\u2019s 1-0 shootout win over the Detroit Red Wings at the Bell Centre with an undisclosed injury. The Canadiens were forced to use 11 forwards and seven defenceman for that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xhekaj practised with his teammates Monday morning at the Bell Centre, but had to leave the ice early after appearing to aggravate what looked like a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Florian Xhekaj quitte l\u2019entra\u00eenement apr\u00e8s quelques minutes seulement. <\/p>\n<p>On l\u2019a vu grimacer d\u00e8s qu\u2019il tentait d\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer un peu. Visiblement incommod\u00e9. <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RDSca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RDSca<\/a> <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ddPJ8mFifZ\">pic.twitter.com\/ddPJ8mFifZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Friolet (@PFrioletRDS) <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PFrioletRDS\/status\/2109654355641254397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadiens, who are off to a 2-2-1 start to the season, will be back in action Tuesday at the Bell Centre against the Buffalo Sabres (6:30 p.m., TSN2, RDS) before travelling to Washington to face the Capitals on Thursday (7:30 p.m., Amazon Prime).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forward Oliver Kapanen, who has yet to play this season because of a lower-body injury, and defenceman Mike Matheson did not practise on Monday. The team said it was a therapy day for both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beck had one assist in four games with the Rocket this season, while Xhekaj had no points in two games with the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StuCowan1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">x.com\/StuCowan1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/author\/stuartcowan\/\" class=\"postmedia-author-card__image-link\" rel=\"author image nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Profile picture of Stu Cowan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791897378_791_jm23-0420-Stu-Cowan.MT_.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tI grew up dreaming of being an NHL defenceman or an MLB pitcher, but that didn&#8217;t happen. Fortunately, I was able to find another path to work in sports and have been part of The Gazette sports department since the early 1980s, including a 12-year stint as sports editor before becoming sports columnist in 2015. It&#8217;s a great job and I&#8217;m a lucky guy.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"postmedia-author-card__email\" href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/canadiens-habs-promote-owen-beck-florian-xhekaj-laval-rocket-nhl-hockey\/mailto:scowan@postmedia.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tscowan@postmedia.com<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens announced Monday afternoon that they have called up forward Owen Beck from the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-931496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","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\/931496","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=931496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}