{"id":715505,"date":"2026-06-04T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/715505\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:15:08","slug":"canadiens-top-4-trade-candidates-for-2026-nhl-off-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/715505\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens&#8217; Top 4 Trade Candidates For 2026 NHL Off-Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadiens should be looking to move on from Samuel Montembeault this off-season. The 29-year-old became the Canadiens&#8217; third-string goalie this season, and it would be wise for the Canadiens to trade him and his $3.15 million cap hit. Teams looking for a backup goalie could consider taking a chance on Montembeault, even if he struggled this season. In 25 games this season for Montreal, he had a 10-8-4 record, a 3.43 goals-against average, and an .872 save percentage.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens should be looking to move on from Samuel Montembeault this off-season. The 29-year-old became the Canadiens&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[34741,49,48,14110,13886,743,448,37776,82],"class_list":["post-715505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brendan-gallagher","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jayden-struble","tag-kirby-dach","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-samuel-montembeault","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715505","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=715505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}