{"id":622643,"date":"2026-05-04T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622643\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:28:11","slug":"dobson-returns-for-canadiens-in-game-7-against-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622643\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobson returns for Canadiens in Game 7 against Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/noah-dobson-8480865\" title=\"Noah Dobson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Dobson<\/a> returned for the Montreal Canadiens in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference First Round against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Benchmark International Arena on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0defenseman hadn\u2019t played since sustaining an upper-body injury while blocking a shot against the Columbus Blue Jackets on April 11. Dobson had 47 points (12 goals, 35 assists) in 80 regular-season games while averaging 22:29 of ice time. He ranked second in the\u00a0NHL in blocked shots (188), two fewer than Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jake-mccabe-8476931\" title=\"Jake McCabe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake McCabe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been a big player for us this year,\u201d\u00a0Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis said. \u201cI\u2019m confident that if he plays he\u2019s going to bring something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dobson participated in the morning skate but did not play in a 1-0 overtime loss in Game 6 at Bell Centre in Montreal on Friday that tied the best-of-7 series 3-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe does so much for the group on both sides of the ice,\u201d Montreal forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brendan-gallagher-8475848\" title=\"Brendan Gallagher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Gallagher<\/a> said. \u201cSo, at some point here, we\u2019re going to get him back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA &#8212; Noah Dobson returned for the Montreal Canadiens in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference First Round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-622643","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\/622643","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=622643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}