{"id":761697,"date":"2026-06-26T04:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761697\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:13:26","slug":"canadiens-acquire-forward-hunter-mckown-from-the-columbus-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761697\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens acquire forward Hunter McKown from the Columbus Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROSSARD\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Thursday that the team has\u00a0acquired\u00a0forward Hunter McKown from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for forward Luke\u00a0Tuch.<\/p>\n<p>During his professional career,\u00a0McKown suited up for 12 games with the Blue Jackets\u00a0and\u00a0recorded\u00a0two assists. He has also played 184 regular-season games with the Cleveland Monsters in the AHL, tallying 31 goals and 49 assists. He added eight points, including four goals, in 25 playoff contests with Columbus&#8217; affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>McKown,\u00a023,\u00a0spent three seasons with the Colorado College Tigers prior to\u00a0making his pro\u00a0debut, amassing 55 points (36G, 19A)\u00a0in\u00a096 games\u00a0in the\u00a0NCAA. He also\u00a0represented\u00a0the United States at the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship, appearing in four games.<\/p>\n<p>A native of San Jose, CA,\u00a0McKown is a\u00a06-foot-1, right-shot center and\u00a0weighs\u00a0192 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROSSARD\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Thursday that the team has\u00a0acquired\u00a0forward Hunter McKown from the Columbus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-761697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761697","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=761697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}