{"id":597869,"date":"2026-04-11T22:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597869\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:07:08","slug":"top-canadiens-prospect-michael-hage-returning-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597869\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Canadiens prospect Michael Hage returning to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of 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>&#8216; top prospects is returning to college for his junior season.<\/p>\n<p>Centre Michael Hage will be back at the University of Michigan for the 2026-27 season, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reports.<\/p>\n<p>Hage, who turns 20 next week, was a first-round pick by the Canadiens (21st overall) in 2024. This season, the six-foot-one centre had 13 goals and 52 points in 39 games, helping the Wolverines reach the semifinals of the Frozen Four.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakville, Ont., native also had 15 points in seven games for Canada&#8217;s bronze-medal winning team at the most recent World Juniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Montreal Canadiens&#8216; top prospects is returning to college for his junior season. Centre Michael Hage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-597869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597869","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=597869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}