{"id":781954,"date":"2026-07-05T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781954\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:45:51","slug":"is-there-a-market-for-canadiens-montembeault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781954\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Market For Canadiens\u2019 Montembeault?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Hughes spoke to the media after inking Ivan Demidov to an 8-year contract extension, he was asked whether there was a market for Montembeault, and he replied: &#8220;Yes.&#8221; It\u2019s a fair assessment, but it feels like some more dominoes need to fall before Montembeault becomes another team&#8217;s backup plan. He had a horrendous season last year, but he didn\u2019t forget how to be a goalie out of the blue, and someone\u2019s bound to want to take a chance on him. Unlike Brendan Gallagher, though, Hughes won\u2019t trade him just to trade him; he\u2019ll want something in return, and if all else fails, all three goalies could still be in Montreal at the start of camp. There\u2019s a long way to go before it gets to that, and as the Canadiens\u2019 GM has shown over the years, he doesn\u2019t mind waiting for the right deal to come along. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Hughes spoke to the media after inking Ivan Demidov to an 8-year contract extension, he was asked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,37777,2338,743,37776,759,449],"class_list":["post-781954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jakub-dobes","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-samuel-montembeault","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781954","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=781954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}