{"id":625101,"date":"2026-04-24T07:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625101\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:39:09","slug":"miller-okhotyuk-robins-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625101\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller, Okhotyuk, Robins \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montreal Canadiens prospect Quentin Miller<\/a> transferred from the University of Denver to Western Michigan University a week ago, Brad Elliott Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald reported<\/a>. He is one of two Canadiens goalie prospects to transfer this week, as 2025 fifth-rounder Alexis Cournoyer<\/a> left Cornell University to join the Wisconsin Badgers<\/a> on April 20. Miller, 21, was a fourth-round pick of the Canadiens at the 2023 draft. He won a QMJHL title and Memorial Cup as a backup with the Quebec Ramparts, and has been a tandem goalie at multiple levels for much of his time since being drafted.<\/p>\n

Miller went 12-10-2 in 25 games for Denver this season, posting a .916 save percentage and 2.39 goals against average, but lost the No. 1 goalie spot to freshman sensation Johnny Hicks. The Athletic\u2019s Scott Wheeler recently ranked<\/a> Miller the No. 14 prospect in the Canadiens\u2019 system, writing \u201cThe Habs will likely want to see him be the guy somewhere before they commit to signing him.\u201d Miller has a clear lane to being the undisputed No. 1 in Kalamazoo \u2013 last year\u2019s starter Hampton Slukynsky<\/a> has turned pro after two years in college and incoming freshman Owen Lepak<\/a> hasn\u2019t been a team\u2019s starter since 2023-24, when he led the NAHL\u2019s Maryland Black Bears to the Robertson Cup Final.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the hockey world:<\/p>\n

Former Calgary Flames and New Jersey Devils defenseman Nikita Okhotyuk<\/a> signed a three-year contract extension<\/a> in the KHL, keeping him in Russia through May 2029. The Flames still hold Okhotyuk\u2019s signing rights since they qualified him when his last NHL contract expired. The 25-year-old defenseman played in nine games as a Flame and has played in 67 career games at the NHL level, split between Calgary, New Jersey, and San Jose. Over the last two seasons with CSKA Moscow, Okhotyuk has skated in 129 contests and scored 23 points.
\nFormer San Jose Sharks prospect Tristen Robins<\/a> plans to sign in North America for 2026-27, according to an official announcement from his former club Ryt\u00ed\u0159i Kladno. Robins was a second-round pick of the Sharks in 2020 and skated in a total of 150 AHL games while a member of the organization. Robins looked to be pushing for an NHL role as recently as 2023, when he scored 38 points in 62 games as an AHL rookie. He earned three NHL games that season and was ranked as the organization\u2019s No. 7 prospect by Scott Wheeler of The Athletic<\/a>. He wasn\u2019t able to build on that rookie campaign and ended up dealt from the Sharks organization in 2025. Playing on a one-year deal in the Czech league, Robins scored 18 goals and 35 points in 45 games, and will hope to earn another shot in an NHL organization this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens prospect Quentin Miller transferred from the University of Denver to Western Michigan University a week ago,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,762,48,8030,743,525,448,234413,82,73484],"class_list":["post-625101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-calgary-flames","tag-canada","tag-khl","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-ncaa","tag-nhl","tag-nikita-okhotyuk","tag-sports","tag-tristen-robins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625101","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=625101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}