{"id":707309,"date":"2026-06-01T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707309\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:03:30","slug":"playoffs-exposed-canadiens-crying-need-for-a-second-line-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707309\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoffs Exposed Canadiens\u2019 Crying Need For A Second Line Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That being said, the Canadiens do have a lot of interesting prospects on their hands. There\u2019s the aforementioned Hage, Alexander Zharovsky, David Reinbacher, Adam Engstrom and, given Jakub Dobes\u2019 performance in the playoffs, could Hughes explore the idea of trading one of his young goalies? It feels like teams could ask, but I doubt the GM will be ready to entertain the idea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That being said, the Canadiens do have a lot of interesting prospects on their hands. There\u2019s the aforementioned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,53806,8467,2338,743,158920,13885,72294],"class_list":["post-707309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jake-evans","tag-kent-hughes","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nico-hischier","tag-oliver-kapanen","tag-robert-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707309","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=707309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}