{"id":767844,"date":"2026-06-29T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767844\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:25:15","slug":"nhl-free-agents-2026-rumors-predictions-for-claude-giroux-mason-marchment-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767844\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Free Agents 2026 Rumors, Predictions for Claude Giroux, Mason Marchment and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Left winger Mason Marchment is garnering attention ahead of free agency, with <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7395688\/2026\/06\/26\/nhl-rumblings-capitals-ovechkin-marchenko\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">LeBrun<\/a> reporting for The Athletic that &#8220;The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs are among several other clubs with interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Despite the interest, LeBrun noted that Columbus is expected to try to re-sign him before Wednesday&#8217;s start of free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Marchment began his career with the Leafs in 2019, appearing in just four games with one assist and an average of 32 minutes of ice time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Since then, he has bounced around the league, with stops in Florida, Dallas, and Seattle. Marchment scored 19 goals, 26 assists, and a total of 45 points in 68 games last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A reliable playmaker and puck handler, it makes sense that teams would be interested in signing him. Whether he actually goes anywhere remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Prediction: Marchment re-signs with Columbus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Left winger Mason Marchment is garnering attention ahead of free agency, with LeBrun reporting for The Athletic that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-767844","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\/767844","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=767844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}