{"id":137954,"date":"2025-09-12T06:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137954\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:25:09","slug":"great-news-for-the-canadiens-as-defenseman-returns-to-the-ice-after-injury-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137954\/","title":{"rendered":"Great News For The Canadiens As Defenseman Returns To the Ice After Injury Setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/595124.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sep 30, 2023; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens defenseman William Trudeau (84) looks on during the first period at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\" title=\"Sep 30, 2023; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens defenseman William Trudeau (84) looks on during the first period at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>We have our first excellent news live from Brossard at the 2025 Montreal Canadiens rookie camp.<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/William-Trudeau-57923\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"William Trudeau profile and hockey stats\">William Trudeau<\/a>, who quietly ranks among the organization&#8217;s current top 10 defensemen, has just returned to the ice in Brossard!<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s fantastic news to see him skating today!<\/p>\n<p>William Trudeau Just Hit the Ice in Brossard: His Serious Injury Seems to Be Healing More and More<\/p>\n<p>He will definitely be a name to watch over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;William Trudeau and Joshua Jacobs are the only two players on the ice in Brossard this morning.<\/p>\n<p>William Trudeau is notably recovering from a torn pectoral muscle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Anthony Martineau<\/p>\n<p>For a few years now, Trudeau has seemed on the verge of knocking on the NHL&#8217;s door, but hasn&#8217;t had much luck (injury, depth on defense, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Will the 2025-26 season finally be his breakthrough?<\/p>\n<p>We hope so, because he has clearly done everything right in recent years to earn such an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>William Trudeau, just 22 years old, is a 6-foot-1, 205-pound left-shot defenseman from Varennes.<\/p>\n<p>He was a 4th-round pick by the Montreal Canadiens in 2021 (113th overall) and recorded 19 points in 68 games last season with the Laval Rocket while maintaining a solid +14 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Also worth noting: Joshua Jacobs was indeed on the ice with Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs, 29, is a 6-foot-2, 223-pound right-shot defenseman and a 2014 second-round pick of the New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n<p>He tallied 5 points in 26 games last season with the Laval Rocket and has three games of NHL experience.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HabsFanatics<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>8 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0295 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Great News For The Canadiens As Defenseman Returns To the Ice After Injury Setback<\/p>\n<p>Do you think William Trudeau will play for the Montreal Canadiens one day?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images We have our first excellent news live from Brossard at the 2025 Montreal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[24898,49,48,37001,5718,9154,743,448,82,74674],"class_list":["post-137954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brossard","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-defenseman","tag-injury","tag-laval-rocket","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-william-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}