{"id":534481,"date":"2026-03-13T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534481\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:03:08","slug":"canadiens-acquire-hunter-shepard-and-jake-chiasson-from-the-ottawa-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534481\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens acquire Hunter Shepard and Jake Chiasson from the Ottawa Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROSSARD\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has\u00a0acquired\u00a0goaltender Hunter Shepard and\u00a0forward\u00a0Jake Chiasson\u00a0from the\u00a0Ottawa Senators in exchange for forward Riley Kidney.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard has played 15 AHL games with Belleville, posting a 6-7-2 record. The 30-year-old netminder has also posted a 2-3-1 record in six career NHL games with the Washington Capitals and Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Chiasson, 22,\u00a0has\u00a0registered one assist in 20 games this season with\u00a0the Belleville Senators in the AHL. The 6-foot-2 and 181 lb forward\u00a0has\u00a0also played 16 games in the ECHL with the Allen Americans,\u00a0producing eight points (2G, 6A). The Abbotsford, BC native was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the fourth round (116th overall)\u00a0of\u00a0the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROSSARD\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has\u00a0acquired\u00a0goaltender Hunter Shepard and\u00a0forward\u00a0Jake Chiasson\u00a0from the\u00a0Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-534481","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\/534481","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=534481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}