{"id":28269,"date":"2022-05-04T13:29:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=28269"},"modified":"2022-05-04T13:29:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:29:06","slug":"riley-kidney-inks-three-year-nhl-entry-level-deal-with-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=28269","title":{"rendered":"Riley Kidney inks three-year NHL entry-level deal with Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;161&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MONTREAL, QUE.:<\/strong> Riley Kidney has signed an entry-level contract with the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a release from the NHL team, Habs general manager Kent Hughes announced the news May 4 that the team agreed to terms on a three-year, entry-level contract (2022-23 to 2024-25) with the Enfield sniper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the release, the deal will see Kidney earn $750,000 in 2022-23 and $775,000 from 2023 to 2025 at the NHL level, in addition to signing bonus payments of $92,500 each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;162&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidney is set to make $80,000 per season at the AHL level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the QMJHL\u2019s Bathurst Titan this season, Kidney, 19, notched 30 goals and 70 assists in 66 games. That was good enough to rank him seventh in Q scoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;156&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five-foot-11, 173 lbs center has contributed 171 points (48 goals, 123 assists) in 158 games since 2019 with the Titan. They selected him eleventh overall in the 2019 QMJHL Draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidney was drafted by the Canadiens in the second round (63rd overall) in the 2021 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;147&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;161&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] MONTREAL, QUE.: Riley Kidney has signed an entry-level contract with the Montreal Canadiens. In a release from the NHL team, Habs general manager Kent Hughes announced the news May 4 that the team agreed to terms on a three-year, entry-level contract (2022-23 to 2024-25) with the Enfield sniper. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3620,390,2661,2426,189,1012],"class_list":["post-28269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-acadie-bathurst-titan-2","tag-enfield","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-qmjhl","tag-riley-kidney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}