{"id":940970,"date":"2026-10-21T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940970\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:20:09","slug":"hidden-game-canadiens-blow-another-third-period-lead-lose-to-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940970\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Game: Canadiens blow another third-period lead, lose to Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If NHL games lasted only two periods, the Canadiens would be well on their way to capturing their first Stanley Cup since 1993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, we don\u2019t believe commissioner Gary Bettman is about to make such a drastic rule change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadiens continue playing with fire. And they continue getting burned, game after game. We warned them about going to the hot stove, and yet they continue touching the burning element.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If NHL games lasted only two periods, the Canadiens would be well on their way to capturing their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-940970","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\/940970","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=940970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}