{"id":806562,"date":"2026-07-16T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806562\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:22:08","slug":"canadiens-sign-kirby-dach-to-one-year-3-6m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806562\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens sign Kirby Dach to one-year, $3.6M contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/kirby-dach\/74702ea1-5ba7-4d04-b9d6-164232a30dc7\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"74702ea1-5ba7-4d04-b9d6-164232a30dc7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kirby Dach<\/a> won&#8217;t be headed to salary arbitration after all.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"montreal-canadiens\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> announced Thursday that the forward has signed a one-year contract worth $3.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Dach was scheduled to have a salary arbitration hearing on July 30, per PuckPedia.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old recorded eight goals and seven assists in 37 regular-season games during the 2025-26 season, then added four goals and one assist in 19 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Chicago Blackhawks as the third-overall pick in the 2019 NHL Draft, Dach spent three seasons there before being traded to Montreal in July 2022 for a first- and third-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Over his NHL career, which has been injury-plagued, the Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., native has 136 points (51 goals and 86 assists) in 306 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>Dach&#8217;s last deal was for four years and carried an average annual value of $3,362,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirby Dach won&#8217;t be headed to salary arbitration after all. The Montreal Canadiens announced Thursday that the forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-806562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806562","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=806562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}