{"id":224012,"date":"2026-03-17T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224012\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:02:45","slug":"montreal-faces-anaheim-in-a-non-conference-matchup-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224012\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal faces Anaheim in a non-conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Anaheim Ducks (36-27-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Montreal Canadiens (36-19-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Montreal, Quebec; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Canadiens -152, Ducks +126; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens play the Anaheim Ducks in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sunday&#8217;s 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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">INJURIES: Canadiens: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ducks: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[102137,163,165,164,847,1489,127],"class_list":["post-224012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-102137","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-article","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224012","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=224012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}