{"id":47468,"date":"2025-08-05T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47468\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:03:10","slug":"maple-leafs-sign-defenceman-william-villeneuve-to-one-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47468\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs sign defenceman William Villeneuve to one-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/william-villeneuve\/c417dca5-723d-4333-aef0-3278a663510c\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"c417dca5-723d-4333-aef0-3278a663510c\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">William Villeneuve<\/a> signed a one-year, two-way contraction extension, the team announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Villeneuve, 23, put up 40 points (four goals, 36 assists) in 55 games with the Marlies last season. Over 165 career AHL games, he has 90 points (nine goals, 81 assists).<\/p>\n<p>The Sherbrooke, Que., native was selected by the Maple Leafs in the fourth round of the 2020 draft.<\/p>\n<p>He played junior hockey with the QMJHL&#8217;s Saint John Sea Dogs, winning the Memorial Cup in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenceman William Villeneuve signed a one-year, two-way contraction extension, the team announced on Tuesday. Villeneuve, 23, put up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-47468","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\/47468","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=47468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}