{"id":806533,"date":"2026-07-16T22:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806533\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:07:09","slug":"montreal-canadiens-re-sign-kirby-dach-to-one-year-3-6-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806533\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens re-sign Kirby Dach to one-year, $3.6 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal Canadiens have signed restricted free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirby-dach\/8481523\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirby-dach\/8481523\" target=\"_blank\">Kirby Dach<\/a> to a one-year, $3.6 million contract to avoid arbitration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dach, 25, recorded eight goals and 15 points in 37 games with the Montreal Canadiens last season and missed 31 with a fractured foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He added four goals and five points in 19 playoff games before the Canadiens were eliminated in the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dach was originally acquired from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> in July of 2022 in exchange for two draft picks and struggled to stay in the Canadiens\u2019 lineup during his four-season tenure, never appearing in more than 58 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-4 centre is coming off a four-year, $13.45 million contract that carried a cap hit of $3.36 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted third overall by the Blackhawks in 2019, Dach has 51 goals and 136 points in 306 career games split between the Blackhawks and Canadiens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens have signed restricted free agent forward Kirby Dach to a one-year, $3.6 million contract to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[712,49,48,78847,2338,78846],"class_list":["post-806533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kirby-dach-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481523","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806533","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=806533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}