{"id":456950,"date":"2025-12-19T03:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/456950\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:45:15","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-lose-to-montreal-canadiens-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/456950\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks lose to Montreal Canadiens 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Zachary Bolduc scored twice and Lane Hutson had three assists as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Dobson also scored for the Canadiens, Nick Suzuki had an empty-net goal and an assist and Jakub Dobes stopped 14 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Nazar scored for the Hawks in the team\u2019s second game without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/12\/15\/chicago-blackhawks-connor-bedard-injured-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">injured star Connor Bedard<\/a>. Spencer Knight made 32 saves as the Hawks lost their fourth straight and sixth in seven games.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Blackhawks forward Frank Nazar (91) scores against Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes, right, during the first period Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Montreal. (Christopher Katsarov\/The Canadian Press via AP)\" width=\"5777\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CTC-Z-HAWKS-HABS.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"30846291\" \/>Blackhawks forward Frank Nazar (91) scores against Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes, right, during the first period Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Montreal. (Christopher Katsarov\/The Canadian Press via AP)<\/p>\n<p>Nazar opened the scoring on the Hawks\u2019 first shot, redirecting a pass behind Dobes after a Canadiens defensive breakdown at 7:27 of the first period. It was Nazar\u2019s sixth goal of the season and first since Oct. 28, ending a streak of 21 games without scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Bolduc cranked a one-timer from the slot off a feed from Cole Caufield feed to tie it later in the period with his eighth of the season, and first at home, prompting a huge ovation from the Bell Centre crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Bolduc, 22, added his second of the night with a deflection 20 seconds into the third period. Dobson made it 3-1 at the 10-minute mark after chasing down a rebound.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens dominated in shots 35-15 in a game that wasn\u2019t as tightly contested as the score indicated. Knight kept the Hawks alive for much of the game.<\/p>\n<p>It was a successful night for coaches challenges. The Canadiens had two goals overturned for offside, and one Hawks goal was brought back for goalie interference.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hawks:<\/strong> At the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Canadiens:<\/strong> Host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Zachary Bolduc scored twice and Lane Hutson had three assists as the Montreal Canadiens beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":456951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,291,155510,5386,1818,108789,3104,123389,209154],"class_list":{"0":"post-456950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","10":"tag-frank-nazar","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-lane-hutson","14":"tag-montreal-canadiens","15":"tag-spencer-knight","16":"tag-zachary-bolduc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115744180601044992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}