{"id":891723,"date":"2026-09-14T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891723\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:22:10","slug":"canadiens-st-louis-agree-to-multi-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891723\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens, St. Louis agree to multi-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General manager Kent Hughes <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2099468315915694440\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2099468315915694440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced on Monday<\/a> that the team agreed to a multi-year contract extension with Martin St-Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old St-Louis has a record of 149\u2013136\u201343 over five seasons in Montreal and is coming off an appearance in the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarty has done a terrific job leading our young team,\u201d said Hughes in a statement released by the team. \u201cHe is a great communicator and teacher. We look forward to his continued efforts to mold this group into a championship-caliber team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis, who was hired as an interim coach back on Feb. 9, 2022, was named a finalist for the Jack Adams Award in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes also\u00a0announced\u00a0that\u00a0forward\u00a0Josh Anderson\u00a0has been named alternate captain to Nick Suzuki.\u00a0Mike Matheson\u00a0is the other\u00a0alternate captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"General manager Kent Hughes announced on Monday that the team agreed to a multi-year contract extension with Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-891723","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\/891723","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=891723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}