HW 3 Stars: October’s Top Prospects
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The month of October wasn’t particularly good for the Habs. However, it was a good one for quite a few of Montreal’s prospects who either started their season with a bang or continued their run from September.
The month of October wasn’t particularly good for the Habs. However, it was a good one for quite a few of Montreal’s prospects who either started their season with a bang or continued their run from September.
With his ice time being largely limited to the fourth line, it felt like Oliver Kapanen’s situation might be coming to a head soon. That was indeed the case on Wednesday as he was returned to the SHL. This was the right call for the organization to make.
While the Habs have struggled lately, the same can’t be said for their farm team. Laval continued its hot stretch, winning three more games to extend the franchise-record streak to seven straight despite some more key players getting injured.
Home ice was kind to Laval last week as they picked up a pair of victories against division-rival Syracuse while continuing their strong start defensively to the season.
The Habs had a fair bit of turnover in their prospect pool in recent months with 11 new players joining the fold while the team parted way with 10 more. Here are our annual prospect rankings for the 2024-25 season.
Laval kicked off its first week of the 2024-25 campaign with a pair of stops on the road. They took care of business in the opener but weren’t able to muster up much the following night, resulting in a split.
Laval was quite busy over the summer in terms of signing players to AHL contracts. Here’s a look at those players heading into Friday’s season opener.
In advance of Monday afternoon’s season-opening roster deadline, the Habs announced four more cuts from training camp. Heading to Laval are goalie Jakub Dobes, defencemen Adam Engstrom and Logan Mailloux, and winger Joshua Roy.
David Reinbacher’s second season as a prospect of the Canadiens has been derailed before it even began. The team announced Tuesday that the blueliner has undergone knee surgery that will sideline him for five to six months.
Following a mass group of cuts by the Habs over the weekend, Laval released its initial training camp roster consisting of 32 players with their first practice slated for Tuesday.