{"id":426458,"date":"2026-01-25T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/426458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:04:14","slug":"defenceman-free-agents-canadiens-draft-hutson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/426458\/","title":{"rendered":"Defenceman Free Agents, Canadiens Draft, Hutson"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the latest Habs news, recent Montreal Canadiens stories, as well as information from around the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n

Habs News<\/p>\n

National Hockey Now Network<\/p>\n

The New York Islanders are returning to the outdoors this upcoming season. While it hasn\u2019t been officially confirmed, it has been reported the Islanders will face the New York Rangers at Metlife Stadium as part of the NHL\u2019s Stadium Series sometime next February. [New York Islanders<\/a>]
\nCheck out the latest edition of the Avalanche Mailbag, which includes a question regarding former Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas. [Colorado Avalanche<\/a>]
\nSpeaking of the Leafs, with all the Auston Matthews talk, where do the Chicago Blackhawks fit in? [Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>]
\nThe Pittsburgh Penguins and ownership group Fenway Sports Group narrowed their search and began a second series of interviews to fill the vacant general manager position. [Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>]
\nLeafs assistant coach Spencer Carbery is \u201cat or near the top\u201d of the Washington Capitals\u2019 list of head coaching candidates. [Washington Capitals<\/a>]
\nThe Vegas Golden Knights will most likely face the very best, meanest, hungriest Dallas Stars team they\u2019ve seen since the 2020 Final Four. [Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>]
\nTake a closer look at 2023 top prospects Leo Carlsson and Matvei Michkov. [San Jose Sharks<\/a>]
\nShould the Boston Bruins re-sign upcoming unrestricted free agent Connor Clifton? [Boston Bruins<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\t\tMarc has been covering the Habs for over a decade. He previously worked for Journal Metro, The Athletic, The … More about Marc Dumont<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the latest Habs news, recent Montreal Canadiens stories, as well as information from around the National Hockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[8744,1526,5,691,4,465,466,9464],"class_list":{"0":"post-426458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-damon-severson","9":"tag-habs-news","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-john-klingberg","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-draft","14":"tag-nhl-entry-draft","15":"tag-radko-gudas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115952817085577096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}