{"id":953116,"date":"2026-10-31T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953116\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:10:11","slug":"montreals-highest-paid-athletes-2026-the-top-15-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953116\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s highest-paid athletes 2026: The top 15, ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montreal\u2019s highest-paid athlete plays in Toronto, and he isn\u2019t a hockey player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Montreal may be a hockey town, the highest-paid athletes this city has produced are playing baseball, basketball or soccer, or driving race cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t any Canadiens or other hockey stars on the list of accomplished Montreal athletes making millions in sports; it\u2019s just that playing the puck doesn\u2019t pay quite as well as hitting home runs \u2014 at least at the highest levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s highest-paid athlete plays in Toronto, and he isn\u2019t a hockey player. While Montreal may be a hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-953116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953116","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=953116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}