{"id":106854,"date":"2021-04-11T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T18:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=106854"},"modified":"2021-04-11T14:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T18:15:36","slug":"jon-merrill-traded-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/04\/11\/jon-merrill-traded-montreal-canadiens\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings Deal Jon Merrill to the Montreal Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens, on Sunday afternoon, announced their acquisition of defenceman Jon Merrill from the Detroit Red Wings. In return, the team sent Detroit their 2021 fifth-round draft pick and minor-league forward Hayden Verbeek.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Canadiens have acquired defenseman Jon Merrill from the Detroit Red Wings, in return for a fifth-round pick in 2021 and forward Hayden Verbeek.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoHabsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoHabsGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BEiUjl9zx7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/BEiUjl9zx7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1381299379525578757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/h2>\n<h2>Jon Merrill Traded to Montreal Canadiens By Detroit<\/h2>\n<p>Montreal will be Merrill&#8217;s fourth NHL team, and his third in the past two years. After being selected 38th overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/devils\/\" target=\"_self\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> in 2010, Merrill finally made his NHL debut with the Devils in 2013-14. In addition to the Devils and Red Wings, Merrill was a member of the inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>. He played with them from their inception in 2017-18. That&#8217;s until he signed as a free agent with Detroit this past offseason.<\/p>\n<p>In 36 games with Detroit this year, Merrill tallied just five assists. He&#8217;s not known for being an offensive talent, however. He&#8217;s tallied just 12 goals and 54 assists across his 392-game NHL career.<\/p>\n<h3>How This Impacts the Canadiens<\/h3>\n<p>Merrill arrives in Montreal as an acquisition that should help balance out the hole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/chiarbe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Chiarot<\/a>&#8216;s left in the lineup with his injury. An extremely solid defensive defenceman, Merrill has demonstrated the ability to play up and down the lineup throughout his career. As a younger d-man in New Jersey, he sometimes eclipsed over 20 minutes a night. While those days were left behind in Vegas, as he was often a healthy scratch, Merrill&#8217;s been given more responsibility this year in Detroit. Entrusted with a second-pairing role, Merrill&#8217;s still put up solid defensive metrics against tougher competition.<\/p>\n<p>In short, he&#8217;ll give coach Dominique Ducharme some flexibility as the Habs approach the playoffs. It&#8217;s unknown where he&#8217;ll slot into the lineup, but he&#8217;ll add to a solid defensive left side with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/edmunjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Edmundson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kulakbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brett Kulak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"06RXsqFGTP5mI8bUEN9Teg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1232099667\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'06RXsqFGTP5mI8bUEN9Teg',sig:'TqFrVKw2ddpIcfvFK004bMjuxlZAAedzLulVEEO-ZX4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1232099667',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens, on Sunday afternoon, announced their acquisition of defenceman Jon Merrill from the Detroit Red Wings. In return, the team sent Detroit their 2021 fifth-round draft pick and minor-league forward Hayden Verbeek. The Canadiens have acquired defenseman Jon Merrill from the Detroit Red Wings, in return for a fifth-round pick in 2021 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3006,"featured_media":106856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,4547,7,34,4548],"tags":[6688,647],"class_list":["post-106854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","category-hockey","category-canadiens","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2021-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-jon-merrill"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}