{"id":220570,"date":"2026-03-15T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220570\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:32:08","slug":"montreal-faces-anaheim-in-a-non-conference-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220570\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal faces Anaheim in a non-conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim Ducks (36-27-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Montreal Canadiens (36-19-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n<p>Montreal, Quebec; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Canadiens -152, Ducks +126; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens play the Anaheim Ducks in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal is 36-19-10 overall and 18-12-2 at home. The Canadiens have committed 273 total penalties (4.2 per game) to rank fourth in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim has gone 14-17-2 in road games and 36-27-3 overall. The Ducks have a 14-2-2 record in games they score one or more power-play goals.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s game is the second time these teams meet this season. The Ducks won 6-5 in a shootout in the last matchup.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Cole Caufield has 38 goals and 27 assists for the Canadiens. Nicholas Suzuki has four goals and eight assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson LaCombe has eight goals and 38 assists for the Ducks. Cutter Gauthier has scored eight goals and added one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Canadiens: 5-2-3, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.9 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: 6-4-0, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.4 assists, 4.5 penalties and 11.6 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Canadiens: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks (36-27-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Montreal Canadiens (36-19-10, in the Atlantic Division) Montreal, Quebec; Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,7,9222,2099,67310,19606,404,1489,100892,127],"class_list":["post-220570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-data-skrive","tag-jackson-lacombe","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-nicholas-suzuki","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}