{"id":210215,"date":"2025-10-13T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210215\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:24:07","slug":"canadiens-reward-star-defenceman-lane-hutson-with-us70-8-million-eight-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210215\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens reward star defenceman Lane Hutson with US$70.8 million, eight-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Montreal\u00a0Canadiens have rewarded star defenceman Lane Hutson, last season\u2019s NHL rookie of the year, with a new US$70.8 million, eight-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which runs from 2026-27 to 2033-34, will pay the 21-year-old Hutson an average annual salary of US$8.85 million. The Michigan-born blueliner is earning US$950,000 this season.<\/p>\n<p>Hutson scored six goals and added 60 assists in 82 games with the Habs as a rookie last season. He led\u00a0Montreal\u00a0in assists and topped all NHL rookies in points, assists, power-play points (26) and average ice time (22:44).<\/p>\n<p>Hutson\u2019s 66 points set a points record by a Canadiens rookie defenceman, while his 60 assists tied the league mark for assists by a rookie blueliner, set by Larry Murphy in 1980-81.<\/p>\n<p>Hutson became the seventh player in Canadiens history and the first since Ken Dryden in 1971-72 to win the Calder Memorial Trophy, awarded annually \u201cto the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montreal\u00a0selected Hutson in the second round (62nd overall) of the 2022 NHL draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Montreal\u00a0Canadiens have rewarded star defenceman Lane Hutson, last season\u2019s NHL rookie of the year, with a new US$70.8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-210215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210215","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=210215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}