{"id":538250,"date":"2026-03-13T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:55:08","slug":"two-year-entry-level-contract-for-luke-mittelstadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538250\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-year, entry-level contract for Luke Mittelstadt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROSSARD \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has agreed to terms on a two-year, entry-level contract (2026-27 to 2027-28) with defenseman Luke Mittelstadt. Mittelstadt also signed a one-year, one-way AHL contract and will join the Laval Rocket for the remainder of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>Mittelstadt appeared in 36 games with the University of Minnesota Gophers in the NCAA this season. The 23-year-old blue-liner produced 21 points (2G, 19A) and led all Gophers defensemen in goals, assists and points, in addition to setting a career high in assists. Mittelstadt, one of three players to serve as team captain this season, concluded his NCAA career with an 80-point haul (11G, 69A) in 152 games with the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The Eden Prairie, MN native represented the United States at the 2023 World Junior Championship in Halifax and Moncton, where he won bronze and recorded three assists in seven contests.<\/p>\n<p>Mittelstadt was selected by the Canadiens in the seventh round (197th overall) of the 2023 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROSSARD \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has agreed to terms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-538250","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\/538250","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=538250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}