{"id":791325,"date":"2026-07-09T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791325\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:01:08","slug":"one-year-contract-for-brett-berard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791325\/","title":{"rendered":"One-year contract for Brett Berard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROSSARD \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Thursday that the team has agreed to terms on a one-year, two-way contract with forward Brett Berard.<\/p>\n<p>Berard, 23, played 13 games in the NHL with the Rangers in 2025-26. The 5-foot-9, 175-pound forward also skated in 41 games with the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL last season, registering six goals and 16 assists. Since making his NHL debut in 2024-25, Berard has produced 10 points (6G, 4A) in 48 games with New York.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Berard made his professional debut in 2022-23, and has amassed 40 goals and 53 assists in 145 contests with the AHL\u2019s Wolf Pack over four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Providence, RI, Berard was acquired from the Rangers in exchange for defenseman William Trudeau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROSSARD \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Thursday that the team has agreed to terms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-791325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791325","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=791325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}