One element of the CBA that often gets overlooked is the limit of 50 active contracts. While right now, the Canadiens are well under that limit for next season, it’s quite possible that they’re going to be very close to it this summer.
The 2023 World Hockey Championship is now underway and will run through May 28th. Despite missing the playoffs, the Habs don’t have many regulars playing in this event although several of their prospects are participating. As is tradition, we’ll keep track of their stats here.
The Habs will have a total of seven players representing them at the 2023 World Championship with the majority of those being prospects. Here’s a rundown of who will be participating with a prediction of the role they’ll have.
This offseason is likely to feature plenty of roster movement from the Habs. But before we ponder what could happen, it’s worth sitting down to look at how the team shapes up right now before any big changes are made.
Heading into the draft lottery, the Habs were holding down the fifth-overall selection. While there was a winner in the lottery, it wasn’t the Canadiens but they did stay where they were and will pick fifth next month.
This past season was certainly an adventurous one for the Habs with some highs mixed in among a tough showing in the standings. Who performed the best relative to expectations? Make your choices for Montreal’s end-of-season report cards.
For a while now, it has been known that Luke Tuch will be playing for Team USA at the upcoming World Championship. On Thursday, it was revealed that two other Hab prospects will participate in Sean Farrell and Lane Hutson.
With the second round underway, the remaining two series begin Wednesday night. The HabsWorld writers provide their predictions on who they see advancing into the next round of the postseason.
There were some surprises from the first round of the playoffs, to say the least. The HabsWorld writers rallied back to come up with their predictions for the second round of the 2023 series starting with the series beginning on Tuesday.
While there aren’t many pending free agents on the Habs, the same can’t be said in Laval. With the Rocket, the list of players on expiring contracts is much bigger than the list of players signed. Here’s a look at their free agent situation.