{"id":781254,"date":"2026-07-05T06:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781254\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:17:22","slug":"on-the-canadiens-excellent-relationship-with-dan-milstein-and-gold-star-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781254\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Canadiens\u2019 Excellent Relationship With Dan Milstein and Gold Star Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question seemed to amused the GM who was, it has to be said, in a great mood: \u201cIvan thinks it\u2019s because he\u2019s [Milstein] a better salesman than other agents\u201d, said Hughes laughing, before adding: \u201cI\u2019d say that I didn\u2019t know Dan at all before taking this job, I think he\u2019s an agent that\u2019s direct, honest, but the fact that we are drafting his players has nothing to do with who\u2019s the agent. I think it\u2019s more about the Russian market being less open; as a result, there may be players we believe would be scouted more and graded higher if they played in the CHL or the NCAA. I can\u2019t tell you we\u2019ll draft one of his clients every year, but I think he\u2019s a guy that\u2019s direct, honest, and so far, all of our interactions have been good\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The question seemed to amused the GM who was, it has to be said, in a great mood:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,276569,276570,10396,8467,186832,2338,743],"class_list":["post-781254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dan-milstein","tag-gold-star-agency","tag-ivan-demidov","tag-kent-hughes","tag-kirill-marchenko","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781254","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=781254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}