{"id":45835,"date":"2025-08-05T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45835\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:35:07","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-sign-defenceman-william-villeneuve-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45835\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs sign defenceman William Villeneuve to extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman William Villeneuve to a one-year, two-way contract extension, the NHL club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old from Sherbrooke, Que., recorded 40 points (four goals, 36 assists) in 55 games with the American Hockey League\u2019s Toronto Marlies last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He added two assists in two games during the Calder Cup playoffs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Villeneuve has posted 90 points (nine goals, 81 assists) in 165 career regular-season AHL games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-foot-two, 195-pound defenceman was originally selected by Toronto in the fourth round (122nd overall) of the 2020 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before joining the Maple Leafs organization, Villeneuve posted 153 points (21 goals, 132 assists) in 216 career regular-season Quebec Major Junior Hockey League games with the Saint John Sea Dogs, while adding seven points (one goal, six assists) in 11 playoff games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Villeneuve won the 2022 Memorial Cup with the Sea Dogs and was named to the 2020 and 2022 QMJHL second all-star team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenceman William Villeneuve to a one-year, two-way contract extension, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-45835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}