BROSSARD \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Sunday that the team has agreed to terms on a one-year, $1 million contract with forward Alexandre Texier. The team also recalled defenseman Adam Engstrom from the Laval Rocket.<\/p>\n
Texier played eight games with the St. Louis Blues this season, registering an assist. It was the 26-year-old forward’s second season with the Blues, after spending the first five seasons of his career in Columbus with the Blue Jackets. Texier, a native of Saint-Martin-d\u2019H\u00e8res, FR, skated in 240 career NHL games since making his debut in 2018-19. The 6-foot-1, 196-pound forward produced 91 points (40G, 51A) in addition to serving 94 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
Texier took part in 21 playoff contests with the Blue Jackets and the Blues, scoring two goals and adding six helpers. The left-handed forward also represented France in many international competitions, including five IIHF World Championships where he played a total of 32 games and recorded 15 points (4G, 11A).<\/p>\n
Texier was selected by the Blue Jackets in the second round (45th overall) at the 2017 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n
Engstrom has played 18 games with the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket this season, registering 14 points (5G, 9A) and six penalty minutes. The 22-year-old rearguard leads all AHL defensemen in goals and leads all Rocket defensemen in assists and points.<\/p>\n
Engstrom was selected by the Canadiens in the third round (92nd overall) at the 2022 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROSSARD \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Sunday that the team has agreed to terms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-302662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302662","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=302662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}