{"id":526527,"date":"2026-03-27T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/526527\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:29:12","slug":"montreal-canadiens-sign-defenceman-owen-protz-to-three-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/526527\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens sign defenceman Owen Protz to three-year, entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> announced on Friday that they have signed defenceman Owen Protz to a three-year, entry-level contract. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Protz, 20, scored five goals with 23 points in 64 regular-season games with the OHL\u2019s Brantford Bulldogs this season. Brantford begins its first-round playoff series Friday night against the Sudbury Wolves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A fourth-round pick (102nd overall) by Montreal in 2024, Protz has played in 198 OHL games, scoring 13 goals with 74 points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens announced on Friday that they have signed defenceman Owen Protz to a three-year, entry-level contract.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,33168,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-526527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","11":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116303505906105388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526527","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=526527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}