{"id":883261,"date":"2026-09-04T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883261\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:40:10","slug":"nhl-rumor-roundup-nikishin-to-the-blues-will-xhekaj-and-bolduc-stay-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883261\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumor Roundup: Nikishin To The Blues? Will Xhekaj And Bolduc Stay In Montreal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAccording to Rutherford, the<br \/>\n6\u20193\u201d, 218-pound Nikishin fits the profile of a big, left-shot<br \/>\ndefenseman with Stanley Cup experience that Blues general manager<br \/>\nAlex Steen is looking for.  The young Russian is a restricted free<br \/>\nagent after completing his <a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/player\/alexander-nikishin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">entry-level contract<\/a>. He lacks<br \/>\narbitration rights and is ineligible to receive an offer sheet from a<br \/>\nrival club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Rutherford, the 6\u20193\u201d, 218-pound Nikishin fits the profile of a big, left-shot defenseman with Stanley Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,748,743,448,82],"class_list":["post-883261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883261","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=883261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}