{"id":600981,"date":"2026-04-11T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:35:07","slug":"top-canadiens-prospect-michael-hage-returning-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600981\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Canadiens prospect Michael Hage returning to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"montreal-canadiens\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>&#8216; top prospects is returning to college for his junior season.<\/p>\n<p>Centre Michael Hage will be back at the University of Michigan for the 2026-27 season, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reports.<\/p>\n<p>Hage, who turns 20 next week, was a first-round pick by the Canadiens (21st overall) in 2024. This season, the six-foot-one centre had 13 goals and 52 points in 39 games, helping the Wolverines reach the semifinals of the Frozen Four.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakville, Ont., native also had 15 points in seven games for Canada&#8217;s bronze-medal winning team at the most recent World Juniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Montreal Canadiens&#8216; top prospects is returning to college for his junior season. Centre Michael Hage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-600981","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\/600981","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=600981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}