MONTREAL \u2013 Montreal\u00a0Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has acquired a second-round pick in 2027 from the Nashville Predators (previously acquired from the Vegas Golden Knights) in exchange for defenseman Jayden Struble.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Struble played 174 career NHL games with the Canadiens since making his debut in 2023-24, registering seven goals and 28 assists. The 25-year-old defenseman also served 167 penalty minutes in four seasons with Montreal. The Cumberland, RI native took part in 14 career playoff contests with the Canadiens.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Struble was selected by Montreal in the second round (46th overall) of the 2019 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 Montreal\u00a0Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has acquired a second-round pick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-927362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927362","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=927362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}