{"id":949143,"date":"2026-10-28T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949143\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:00:11","slug":"mtlstl-game-recap-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949143\/","title":{"rendered":"MTL@STL: Game recap | Montr\u00e9al Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS \u2013 Florian Xhekaj scored his first career NHL goal and Jacob Fowler got his second shutout of the season as the Habs earned their third straight win, defeating the Blues 2-0 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless first period, Zachary Bolduc got the Canadiens on the board at the 8:57 mark of the middle frame with his fifth of the season and his first against his former team.<\/p>\n<p>Xhekaj padded the lead early in the third stanza with a nifty tip-in that survived video review for his first marker in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Fowler was outstanding between the pipes for Montreal, turning aside 46 shots \u2013 a whopping 24 of them in the third period \u2013 to earn his second shutout of the season. He now holds the franchise record for most saves by a rookie backstop in a shutout.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Anderson celebrated his 700th career game in the League, recording two shots, three hits, and two blocked shots.<\/p>\n<p>For more stats, check out the NHL\u2019s Gamecenter summary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/gamecenter\/mtl-vs-stl\/2026\/10\/27\/2026020191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Roster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS \u2013 Florian Xhekaj scored his first career NHL goal and Jacob Fowler got his second shutout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-949143","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\/949143","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=949143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}