{"id":359337,"date":"2025-12-20T04:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359337\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:24:07","slug":"canadiens-acquire-forward-phillip-danault-from-the-los-angeles-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359337\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens acquire forward Phillip Danault from the Los Angeles Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has acquired forward Phillip Danault from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for a second-round pick in 2026, previously acquired from the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n<p>Danault, 32, tallied five assists in 30 games this season with the Kings. The Victoriaville, QC native, registered his second-highest points total (53 points; 12G, 41A) in his NHL career with the Canadiens in 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark his second stint in Montreal as the forward played for the Habs from 2015 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Danault was drafted in the first round (26th overall) by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2011 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has acquired forward Phillip&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-359337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}