{"id":212671,"date":"2025-10-14T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/212671\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:03:19","slug":"montreal-canadiens-finalizing-contract-for-kent-hughes-and-jeff-gorton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/212671\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens finalizing contract for Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> are finalizing contract extensions with general manager Kent Hughes and executive vice president of hockey operations Jeff Gorton.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All signs point to the Habs management duo of Jeff Gorton and Kent Hughes finalizing extensions soon. Both are on expiring deals this season.<br \/>First to report, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FriedgeHNIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1978120943214973019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadiens hired Gorton in November of 2021, while Hughes was brought on board in January of 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Since their arrival, the duo has led the team\u2019s rebuild with draft picks like Juraj Slafkovsky, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/lane-hutson\/8483457\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/lane-hutson\/8483457\" target=\"_blank\">Lane Hutson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ivan-demidov\/8484984\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ivan-demidov\/8484984\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Demidov<\/a>, while signing Slafkovsky, Hutson, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-caufield-390746\/8481540\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-caufield-390746\/8481540\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Caufield<\/a> to long-term contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Under their leadership, the team also brought in Martin St-Louis as head coach, helping guide the Canadiens to the post-season this past spring for the first time since 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prior to joining the Canadiens, Hughes was a player agent for Quartexx Management based in Montreal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 55-year-old Montreal native is the 18th general manager for the Canadiens in the team\u2019s 116-year history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gorton previously served as general manager of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a> from 2015 to 2021 and also served as the Rangers\u2019 assistant GM for four seasons prior to his promotion to GM.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens are finalizing contract extensions with general manager Kent Hughes and executive vice president of hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-212671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212671","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=212671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}