{"id":954028,"date":"2026-11-01T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954028\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:18:09","slug":"hidden-game-canadiens-hold-sidney-crosby-and-penguins-at-bay-for-fifth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954028\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Game: Canadiens hold Sidney Crosby and Penguins at bay for fifth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re not sure when, if ever, the Canadiens and Pittsburgh Penguins will meet again in the playoffs, since they haven\u2019t collided since 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we\u2019ll go out on a limb and suggest it would be an offensive series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the teams combined for 11 goals \u2014 six by Pittsburgh \u2014 on Oct. 3 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-nhl\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-nhl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">second game of the regular season<\/a>, the teams took their feet off the gas Saturday night at the Bell Centre, and dipped to nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re not sure when, if ever, the Canadiens and Pittsburgh Penguins will meet again in the playoffs, since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-954028","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\/954028","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=954028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}