Signing Habs sign Samuel Poulin and Ethan Samson

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One-year, two-way deals for each.

https://www.habsworld.net/2026/07/habs-sign-samuel-poulin-and-ethan-samson/

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 Is Hughes more active or quicker than most other GMs adding AHL pieces like they have?
    
The Montréal Canadiens signed forward Samuel Poulin and defenseman Ethan Samson to on one-year, two-way contracts. (July 1)

The Laval Rocket signed defenseman Braden Haché to a two-year, one-way AHL contract, goaltenders Hunter Jones and Kevin Mandolese to one-year, one-way AHL contracts, and goaltender Francesco Lapenna to a one-year, two-way AHL contract. (July 1)

The Laval Rocket re-signed forwards Vincent Arseneau and Xavier Simoneau to one-year, one-way AHL contracts. (July 1)

The Montréal Canadiens re-signed foward Alex Belzile to a one-year, two-way contract and goaltender Kaapo Kähkönen to a one-year, one-way contract. (July 1

The Montréal Canadiens tendered qualifying offers to forwards Brett Berard, Jared Davidson, Sean Farrell and Hunter McKown, and defensemen Maksymilian Szuber. 

The Montréal Canadiens acquired defenseman Maksymilian Szuber from the Utah Mammoth for forward Joshua Roy. (June 29)

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I see were lots AHL signings yesterday.

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2 hours ago, DON said:

 Is Hughes more active or quicker than most other GMs adding AHL pieces like they have?

 

Not really.  Vegas signed 11 guys yesterday to NHL deals that are mostly destined for the minors.  Lots of teams had half a dozen or more.  Most teams had a bunch of AHL signings on top of any NHL deals.