{"id":565087,"date":"2026-03-27T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565087\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:33:12","slug":"canadiens-owen-protz-agree-to-terms-on-three-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565087\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens, Owen Protz agree to terms on three-year, entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"montreal-canadiens\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> and the defenceman agreed to terms on a three-year, entry-level contract that begins next season, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2037605649249419573?s=20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2037605649249419573?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-one blue-liner spent last season in the OHL with the Brantford Bulldogs, appearing inn 64 games and notching five goals and 18 assists. <\/p>\n<p>Protz began his OHL journey with the Sudbury Wolves, spending a season and a half with the squad before he was traded to the Bulldogs in the 2023-24 season. He reached a career high in assists (27) and points (32) in the 2024-25 season, while adding six points in 11 playoff games that year. <\/p>\n<p>He currently leads the Bulldogs with 84 PIMs. <\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens selected the Ottawa native in the fourth round, 102nd overall, at the 2024 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens and the defenceman agreed to terms on a three-year, entry-level contract that begins next season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-565087","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\/565087","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=565087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}