{"id":605326,"date":"2026-06-23T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/605326\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:54:13","slug":"insider-mentions-players-interest-in-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/605326\/","title":{"rendered":"Insider Mentions Player\u2019s Interest In Montreal Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As evidenced by the Takchuk trade, teams are no longer that reluctant to trade players inside their own division, and Yzerman has done it before when he sent Jonathan Drouin to the Habs nearly a decade ago. While Larkin is a great player and would fit the Canadiens\u2019 need, one has to wonder if he\u2019d be in for the long haul in Montreal since he was part of Team USA at the latest Olympics, and a lot of those players have been requesting trades to American teams of late. There\u2019s no concern for players who have been Habs for years and have shown themselves to be committed to the team, but it may be different for an outside hire, so to speak. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As evidenced by the Takchuk trade, teams are no longer that reluctant to trade players inside their own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,595,5,1749,264,21,5147,4,6244],"class_list":["post-605326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-canadiens","tag-dylan-larkin","tag-hockey","tag-kent-hughes","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-nhl","tag-pierre-lebrun"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116800236043788008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605326","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=605326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}