{"id":791721,"date":"2026-07-10T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791721\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:02:08","slug":"canadiens-sign-restricted-free-agent-brett-berard-to-two-way-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791721\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens sign restricted free agent Brett Berard to two-way deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens have signed restricted free agent forward Brett Berard to a one-year, two-way deal.<\/p>\n<p>Berard was <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/canadiens-trade-defenceman-william-trudeau-to-rangers-for-brett-berard-in-minor-league-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">acquired by the Habs<\/a> from the New York Rangers on the eve of the NHL Draft on June 26. The Canadiens sent back defenceman William Trudeau in exchange for the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Providence, R.I., Berard has played 48 career NHL games for the Rangers, collecting 10 points. The Blueshirts selected Berard in the fifth round (134th pick) in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-9, 175-pound forward had 22 points in 41 games with the AHL\u2019s Hartford Wolf Pack this past season.<\/p>\n<p>With Berard crossed off the list, the Canadiens have seven remaining restricted free agents, notably Arber Xhekaj, Zachary Bolduc and Kirby Dach. Dach filed for salary arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>At the minor-league level, the Canadiens have forwards Jared Davidson, Sean Farrell, Hunter McKown, as well as recently acquired defenceman Maksymilian Szuber left unsigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens have signed restricted free agent forward Brett Berard to a one-year, two-way deal. Berard was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-791721","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\/791721","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=791721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}