{"id":251081,"date":"2025-10-25T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251081\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:05:06","slug":"laine-to-miss-3-4-months-for-canadiens-after-core-muscle-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251081\/","title":{"rendered":"Laine to miss 3-4 months for Canadiens after core muscle surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/patrik-laine-8479339\" title=\"Patrik Laine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrik Laine<\/a> will miss 3-4 months after having core muscle surgery, the Montreal Canadiens announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old forward hasn\u2019t played since Oct. 16, a 3-2 overtime win against the Nashville Predators. Laine took his last shift with 4:36 remaining in the third period. He was initially listed as day to day with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Laine has one assist in five games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Selected with the No. 2 pick by the Winnipeg Jets at the 2016 NHL Draft, Laine has 422 points (224 goals, 198 assists) in 537 regular-season games with the Jets, Columbus Blue Jackets and Canadiens, and 17 points (eight goals, nine assists) in 26 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal (6-3-0) is first in the Atlantic Division entering its game at the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrik Laine will miss 3-4 months after having core muscle surgery, the Montreal Canadiens announced Saturday. The 27-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-251081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}