{"id":279030,"date":"2025-11-12T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279030\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:54:10","slug":"canadiens-lane-hutson-ranks-2nd-in-nhl-history-in-record-setting-defenseman-stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279030\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens\u2019 Lane Hutson ranks 2nd in NHL history in record-setting defenseman stat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lane Hutson has taken the NHL by storm from the moment he skated onto the ice for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/montreal-canadiens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Very few defensemen have ever started a career quite like this.<\/p>\n<p>Hutson has now reached the 100 games played mark for his young NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>In that span, Hutson has 75 assists.<\/p>\n<p>His 75 assists through 100 games are the second-most for a D-man in NHL history, behind only Mark Howe (79).<\/p>\n<p>Hutson also has seven goals so far, for a total of 82 points in 100 games to begin his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens chose Hutson No. 62 overall in 2022 out of Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>He made his debut with two games in 2023-24, dishing out two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Hutson played all 82 games in 2024-25, putting up six goals and 60 assists.<\/p>\n<p>So far through 16 games this season, Hutson has a goal and 13 assists.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still just 21 years old, not celebrating his birthday until Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Hutson isn&#8217;t a big dude, more of an incredibly athletic lefty than your classic bruiser of a defenseman.<\/p>\n<p>It works for him, though, and his vision and precision have given him a historic start to his career. No one would be against him continuing and getting even better.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/edmonton-oilers\/news\/oilers-connor-mcdavid-scored-craziest-spinning-ankle-breaking-goal-nhl-history\/ef3ec09dbb76afee4bbf408c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">You have to see this astonishing Connor McDavid goal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lane Hutson has taken the NHL by storm from the moment he skated onto the ice for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-279030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279030","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=279030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}