{"id":937298,"date":"2026-10-18T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937298\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:10:09","slug":"hidden-game-another-blown-lead-but-canadiens-again-notch-a-win-over-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937298\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Game: Another blown lead, but Canadiens again notch a win over Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there\u2019s plenty of racetrack remaining this NHL season, we\u2019ve noticed an early alarming trend that seems to have enveloped the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team appears to lack a killer instinct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Tuesday, the Canadiens squandered a 3-1 third-period lead to the visiting Buffalo Sabres \u2014 only to <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-hockey-canadiens\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-hockey-canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">win 4-3 in a shootout<\/a>. The following night, at Washington, the Canadiens led 2-1 in the first period but, again, failed to protect the advantage and lost 5-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While there\u2019s plenty of racetrack remaining this NHL season, we\u2019ve noticed an early alarming trend that seems to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-937298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937298","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=937298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}