{"id":951343,"date":"2026-10-30T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951343\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:08:09","slug":"montreal-canadiens-defenceman-mike-matheson-out-vs-dallas-stars-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951343\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson out vs. Dallas Stars with lower-body injury"},"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 that defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-matheson\/8476875\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-matheson\/8476875\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Matheson<\/a> will not play Thursday night against the <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> due to a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He will be evaluated when the team returns to Montreal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matheson had two assists in 23:25 of ice time during Tuesday\u2019s 2-0 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 32-year-old has one goal and four points in eight games this season while averaging 23:45 of ice time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He missed four games earlier this month also due to a lower-body injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matheson is in the first season of a five-year, $30 million contract with an AAV of $6 million that he signed in November of 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A first-round pick (23rd overall) by Florida in 2012, the Pointe-Claire, Que., native has skated in 713 career NHL games, scoring 82 goals with 306 points, split between the Panthers, <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> and Canadiens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadiens\u2019 next game is on Saturday night at home against the Penguins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens announced that defenceman Mike Matheson will not play Thursday night against the Dallas Stars due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[712,49,48,139415,2338,78846],"class_list":["post-951343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mike-matheson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476875","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951343","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=951343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}