{"id":237400,"date":"2026-05-19T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237400\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:11:41","slug":"bears-benoit-commits-to-usports-queens-university-cchl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237400\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears Benoit Commits to USPORTS Queen\u2019s University | CCHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1038\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Luka-Benoit-Signing-Web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Ottawa, ON \u2013 The Central Canada Hockey League and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsfallsbearshockey.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smiths Falls Bears<\/a> are pleased to announce that forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecchl.ca\/stats\/player\/9995\/114\/luka-benoit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Benoit<\/a> has committed to USports Queen\u2019s University for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 2005-born Ottawa, ON, CAN, native was in his third season in the Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL) and first with the Smiths Falls Bears after being acquired at the trade deadline from Nepean. Benoit scored 67 points in 55 games played (32G, 35A) in the regular season before scoring 14 points in 13 playoff games (10G, 4A).<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Luka!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icelevel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.icelevel.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1768673598171000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3b4dSDSlMsgBKD3A31reHV\">www.icelevel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa, ON \u2013 The Central Canada Hockey League and the Smiths Falls Bears are pleased to announce that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-237400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}