{"id":571733,"date":"2026-03-30T23:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571733\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:44:08","slug":"canadiens-call-up-defenceman-adam-engstrom-from-laval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571733\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens call up defenceman Adam Engstrom from Laval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens have recalled defenceman Adam Engstrom from the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket.<\/p>\n<p>In 45 games with the farm club, the 22-year-old Swedish blueliner has 10 goals and 34 points. He\u2019s also a +14.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, Engstrom had 27 points in 66 games in his rookie season in Laval.<\/p>\n<p>Engstrom has already been recalled twice this season. In total, the former third-round pick from 2022 has played 11 games for the Canadiens. He has zero points, six penalty minutes and is a +3.<\/p>\n<p>No corresponding move was announced. The team currently has seven defencemen on the roster, including Arber Xhekaj, who started at forward for the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/about-last-night-canadiens-try-arber-xhekaj-at-forward-in-win-over-canes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday against the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens have recalled defenceman Adam Engstrom from the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket. In 45 games with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-571733","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\/571733","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=571733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}