{"id":568242,"date":"2026-03-27T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568242\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:36:08","slug":"maple-leafs-sign-college-defenceman-hayes-hundley-to-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568242\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs sign college defenceman Hayes Hundley to entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCAA defenceman Hayes Hundley agreed to a three-year entry-level contract with the team, it <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/2037557796741234731?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Hundley, 21, will join the AHL&#8217;s Toronto Marlies on a professional tryout before the deal kicks in next season.<\/p>\n<p>He played 38 games with St. Thomas University this season, recording six goals and six assists. The Upper Arlington, Ohio, native spent last season with the USHL&#8217;s Fargo Force, where he posted four goals and 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p>At six-foot-three and 210 pounds, the right-shooting Hundley joins fellow defenceman Vincent Borgesi and forward Brandon Buhr among the Maple Leafs&#8217; current NCAA signing class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NCAA defenceman Hayes Hundley agreed to a three-year entry-level contract with the team, it announced Friday. Hundley, 21,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-568242","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\/568242","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=568242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}