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MONTREAL — Montreal forward Kirby Dach<\/a> left the Canadiens’ game Sunday night against the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> because of an upper-body injury after a high hit from winger Jeffrey Viel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Viel caught the unsuspecting Dach in Anaheim’s end three minutes into the first period after the Montreal forward swatted at the puck with his arm but missed.<\/p>\n Dach fell to the ice with his face in his gloves before gingerly making his way to the bench, and eventually to the dressing room. Viel was not penalized.<\/p>\n Canadiens defenseman Arber Xhekaj<\/a> and forward Josh Anderson<\/a> approached Viel later in the period, but Viel declined apparent requests to fight.<\/p>\n The hit came three days after Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas<\/a> ended Toronto captain Auston Matthews<\/a>‘ season with a knee-on-knee hit. Matthews has a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee. Gudas was given a major penalty and ejected, then suspended five games for kneeing == the maximum the Department of Safety could levy because the hearing was by phone.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, March 16, 2026 1:12AM MONTREAL — Montreal forward Kirby Dach left the Canadiens’ game Sunday night against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[101324,163,824,165,164,101323,750,19606,100,404,101322],"class_list":["post-221636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-101324","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-dach-kirby","tag-espn","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-viel-jeffrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221636","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=221636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}