{"id":814689,"date":"2026-07-20T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814689\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:30:09","slug":"one-year-contracts-for-jared-davidson-and-hunter-mckown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814689\/","title":{"rendered":"One-year contracts for Jared Davidson and Hunter McKown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROSSARD\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on\u00a0Monday that the team has agreed to terms on one-year, two-way contracts\u00a0(2026-27)\u00a0with forwards Jared Davidson and Hunter McKown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davidson, 24, played 10\u00a0games in the NHL with the\u00a0Canadiens\u00a0in 2025-26,\u00a0recording\u00a0one assist.\u00a0The 5-foot-11, 183-pound forward also skated in\u00a053\u00a0games with the\u00a0Laval Rocket\u00a0in the AHL\u00a0last season,\u00a0producing\u00a016\u00a0goals and\u00a0nine\u00a0assists.\u00a0The forward was drafted\u00a0by the Canadiens\u00a0in the fifth round (130th\u00a0overall)\u00a0of\u00a0the 2022 NHL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McKown sported the colors of the AHL\u2019s Cleveland Monsters in\u00a02025-26. The\u00a023-year-old\u00a0right-handed centerman\u00a0registered\u00a0nine goals and 16 assists in 63 regular season games before adding two points\u00a0(1G, 1A)\u00a0in eight playoff\u00a0appearances.\u00a0A native of\u00a0San Jose,\u00a0CA,\u00a0McKown\u00a0was\u00a0acquired\u00a0from\u00a0the Columbus Blue Jackets\u00a0earlier this summer\u00a0in exchange for\u00a0forward Luke\u00a0Tuch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROSSARD\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on\u00a0Monday that the team has agreed to terms on one-year, two-way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-814689","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\/814689","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=814689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}