{"id":890865,"date":"2026-09-13T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890865\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:40:09","slug":"four-year-contract-for-zachary-bolduc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890865\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-year contract for Zachary Bolduc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GATINEAU\u00a0\u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager\u00a0Kent Hughes\u00a0announced\u00a0on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0that the team has agreed\u00a0to terms\u00a0on\u00a0a\u00a0four-year\u00a0contract\u00a0(2026-27 to 2029-30) with a $4.2\u00a0million AAV\u00a0with\u00a0forward\u00a0Zachary Bolduc.<\/p>\n<p>Bolduc\u00a0appeared\u00a0in 78 regular season games in his first season with the Canadiens in 2025-26, scoring 12 goals and adding 18 assists while serving 28\u00a0penalty minutes. Bolduc\u00a0led\u00a0all Montreal\u00a0forwards with 170 hits, ranking second\u00a0on the team behind\u00a0defenseman Arber\u00a0Xhekaj.<\/p>\n<p>A native of\u00a0Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, QC, Bolduc\u00a0also\u00a0dressed for the\u00a0team\u2019s\u00a019 playoff games\u00a0on the road to the Eastern Conference Final, producing seven points (3G, 4A), including the game-winning goal in the third game of the second\u00a0round against the Buffalo Sabres. The 6-foot,\u00a0187 lb.\u00a0winger ranked second on the team with 47 hits during the\u00a0postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Bolduc\u00a0was selected\u00a0by the\u00a0St. Louis\u00a0Blues\u00a0in the\u00a0first\u00a0round (17th overall)\u00a0of\u00a0the 2021\u00a0NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GATINEAU\u00a0\u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager\u00a0Kent Hughes\u00a0announced\u00a0on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0that the team has agreed\u00a0to terms\u00a0on\u00a0a\u00a0four-year\u00a0contract\u00a0(2026-27 to 2029-30) with a $4.2\u00a0million AAV\u00a0with\u00a0forward\u00a0Zachary Bolduc.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-890865","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\/890865","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=890865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}