{"id":478437,"date":"2025-11-23T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=478437"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:04:53","slug":"source-of-the-latest-rumours-signs-as-a-free-agent-in-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/11\/23\/source-of-the-latest-rumours-signs-as-a-free-agent-in-montreal-canadiens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Source of the Latest Rumours Signs as a Free Agent with Montreal Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s news had been expected based on the NHL rumour mill, but nonetheless it only now happened. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/11\/22\/montreal-canadiens-options-in-net-right-now\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/texieal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexandre Texier<\/a> signs with the club. He signed a one-year deal with the club.<\/p>\n<h2>Alexandre Texier Wastes No Time and Signs with the Montreal Canadiens<\/h2>\n<p>Yesterday, we found out that the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/09\/27\/st-louis-blues-veteran-defenceman-signs-three-year-contract-extension\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> had put forward Alexandre Texier on unconditional waivers for the purpose of contract termination. Then today, as 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time rolled around, he became an unrestricted free agent. Since anybody is able to ink him to a deal, whoever wanted him had to be quick on the draw.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to Alexandre Texier on signing a 1-year NHL contract with the Montr\u00e9al <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:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreGoldStar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WeAreGoldStar<\/a>! <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WfQQPa8nr8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/WfQQPa8nr8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Milstein (@HockeyAgent1) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyAgent1\/status\/1992712179800580446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Elliotte Friedman and <a  href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/ottawa-senators\/ottawa-senators-alexandre-texier\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Garrioch<\/a> already had been spreading rumours of possible landing locations. It didn&#8217;t make sense in Ottawa, the recent talk was of Ottawa looking to hit a home run, Texier wasn&#8217;t it. The plan had been for him to meet with a couple teams, and go from there. But all that doesn&#8217;t matter now, as he has signed with the Habs.<\/p>\n<p>Texier is originally a native of France. He had fallen out of rotation in St. Louis this year with just a single point in eight games. Furthermore, he&#8217;s had a solid career to this point. He brings his two-way game and a bit of depth skill to the lineup. Therefore, there&#8217;s no reason to expect that he can&#8217;t have a bounce back with his newest organization.<\/p>\n<p>Texier&#8217;s career year, as a 24-year-old in 2023-24 with the Columbus Blue Jackets. That year he collected 12 goals and 18 assists in 78 games in an average of 15:11 ice time a game. However, since joining St. Louis for the 2024-25 campaign, he hasn&#8217;t played a lot. He only has 12 points in 39 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alexandre Texier is officially an unrestricted free agent after clearing unconditional waivers. His contract has been terminated.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1992670394646671380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With all of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/11\/16\/another-montreal-canadien-injury-timeline-update-and-its-another-forward\" target=\"_self\">Montreal&#8217;s recent injury troubles<\/a>, this signing means a lot. They are currently without Kirby Dach, Alex Newhook, and Patrik Laine, that is a huge blow to your top six.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Jeff Curry-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s news had been expected based on the NHL rumour mill, but nonetheless it only now happened. The Montreal Canadiens announce that Alexandre Texier signs with the club. He signed a one-year deal with the club. Alexandre Texier Wastes No Time and Signs with the Montreal Canadiens Yesterday, we found out that the St. Louis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":472538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[32,4547,7,34,4548],"tags":[1792],"class_list":["post-478437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-hockey","category-canadiens","category-news","category-nhl","tag-alexandre-texier"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478437","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\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478437"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478447,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478437\/revisions\/478447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}