{"id":510049,"date":"2026-03-02T19:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510049\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:52:23","slug":"canadiens-prospect-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510049\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens Prospect Is On Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While his small stature no doubt explains why he slid so late at the draft, the Canadiens have never been afraid to gamble on smaller-sized players when the talent is there. The Habs used a second-round pick in 1979 to draft 5-foot-7 Mats Naslund, who went on to score 243 goals with the Sainte-Flanelle over eight seasons, including two 40+-goal seasons. More recently, they also used the 15th overall pick at the 2019 draft to select 5-foot-8 Cole Caufield, who has led the team in goals for the last two seasons, and another second-round pick (the 62nd overall) at the 2022 draft to pick 5-foot-9 and reigning Calder Trophy winner blueliner Lane Hutson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While his small stature no doubt explains why he slid so late at the draft, the Canadiens have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-510049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510049","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=510049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}