{"id":807595,"date":"2026-07-17T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807595\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:53:13","slug":"one-year-contract-for-kirby-dach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807595\/","title":{"rendered":"One-year contract for Kirby Dach"},"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 (2026-27), $3.6 million contract with forward Kirby Dach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dach played 37 games with the Canadiens in 2025-26, tallying 15 points (8G, 7A) and serving 31 penalty minutes. The 25-year-old skated in his 300th NHL game on March 14, 2026, vs. the San Jose Sharks. A Fort Saskatchewan, AB native, Dach ranked first among the team\u2019s regular forwards with 1.30 takeaways per 60 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-4, 221-pound right-handed centerman also made 19 playoff appearances last season, registering four goals and one assist, while serving 20 penalty minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dach was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round (3rd overall) of the 2019 NHL Draft.<\/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":807596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-807595","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\/807595","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=807595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}