{"id":767270,"date":"2026-07-17T00:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767270\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:07:11","slug":"dach-signs-1-year-3-6-million-contract-with-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767270\/","title":{"rendered":"Dach signs 1-year, $3.6 million contract with Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kirby-dach-8481523\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirby Dach<\/a> signed a one-year, $3.6 million contract with the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday, avoiding an arbitration hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old forward, who was a restricted free agent, had 15 points (eight goals, seven assists) in 37 regular-season games for the\u00a0Canadiens last season and five points (four goals, one assist) in 19 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Dach filed for arbitration on July 5; the date of his scheduled hearing was not announced.<\/p>\n<p>Dach has been limited to 96 games with Montreal the past three seasons due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Chicago Blackhawks with the No. 3 pick in the 2019 NHL Draft, Dach has 136 points (51 goals, 85 assists) in 306 regular-season games for the Blackhawks and Canadiens and 11 points (five goals, six assists) in 28 playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirby Dach signed a one-year, $3.6 million contract with the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday, avoiding an arbitration hearing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-767270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767270","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=767270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}