Prospects · Montréal Canadiens · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Montréal Canadiens prospects

Every player in the Montréal Canadiens' system who still counts as a rookie, ranked by what he is likely to become: the odds he turns into an NHL regular, and how good the players most like him turned out to be. Draft position starts the estimate; what he does after the draft takes it over.

3rdMontréal Canadiens: pipeline rank among 32 organizations5 in the league top 100 · 49 prospects in the system

Prospects and the Montréal Canadiens'NHL players aged 23 and under, scored on the same scale. A regular's odds are high because he is already there; his score says how good the players like him became.

95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Lane HutsonD · NHL · NHL222022 · #6217 GP · 3-14-17Here
2Ivan DemidovR · NHL · NHL202024 · #52 GP · 1-1-2Here
3Juraj SlafkovskýL · NHL · NHL222022 · #117 GP · 2-10-12Here
4Alexander ZharovskyR · KHL192025 · #3423 GP · 6-12-18▲4
5Jacob FowlerG · NHL212023 · #6910 GP · .925▲1
6Zachary BolducR · NHL · NHL232021 · #1717 GP · 6-2-8Here
7Bryce PickfordD · WHL202025 · #8155 GP · 45-38-83▲1
8Michael HageC · NCAA202024 · #219 GP · 4-16-20▼5
9David ReinbacherD · NHL212023 · #51 GP · 0-0-0–
10Oliver KapanenC · NHL · NHL232021 · #6410 GP · 1-1-2Here
11Gleb PugachyovR · MHL182026 · #2610 GP · 2-2-4▲4
12Adam EngstromD · NHL222022 · #9211 GP · 1-1-2▲10
13Yevgeni VolokhinG · VHL212023 · #14411 GP · .923▲20
14Florian XhekajL · NHL222023 · #1017 GP · 1-2-3▼2
15Arseni RadkovG · QMJHL192025 · #8210 GP · .916▲6
16Alexis CournoyerG · NCAA202025 · #1454 GP · .947▼1
17Timofei RuntsoD · NCAA192026 · #576 GP · 1-0-1▼7
18Owen BeckC · NHL · NHL222022 · #336 GP · 1-2-3
19John MooneyC · NCAA192025 · #1138 GP · 1-1-2▼5
20Cooper CleavesD · NCAA202026 · #934 GP · 0-0-0▼1
21Quentin MillerG · NCAA212023 · #1289 GP · .922–
22Mikus VecvanagsG · BCHL202024 · #13416 GP · .922▲31
23Hayden PaupanekisC · WHL192025 · #698 GP · 2-1-3 NCAA▲7
24Bogdan KonyushkovD · KHL232023 · #11022 GP · 2-4-6▼18
25Brayden KlimpkeD · WHL182026 · #11716 GP · 5-14-19▼17
26Owen ProtzD · AHL202024 · #10211 GP · 0-1-1▼33
27Logan SawyerC · NCAA202024 · #788 GP · 4-9-13▲6
28Filip ErikssonC · SHL212023 · #16514 GP · 4-3-7▼95
29Maxon VigD · NCAA202025 · #2099 GP · 1-4-5▲2
30Emmett CroteauG · NCAA222022 · #1624 GP · .962▲1
31Tyler ThorpeR · AHL212024 · #13010 GP · 0-1-1▼50
32Luke MittelstadtD · AHL232023 · #19714 GP · 5-13-18▲279
33Sasha PastujovR · AHL232021 · #6613 GP · 6-5-11▲5
34Parker TrottierL · WHL182026 · #1894 GP · 2-1-3▲4
35Sam HarrisL · NCAA222023 · #13310 GP · 5-5-10▲16
36Tyler DeakosR · WHL192026 · #22416 GP · 5-10-15▼7
37Ben MerrillC · NCAA202024 · #16610 GP · 2-4-6▲28
38Wesley RoystonR · OHL182026 · #19018 GP · 3-2-5▼12
39Vinzenz RohrerC · NL222022 · #7513 GP · 8-8-16▲28
40Carlos HandelD · QMJHL192025 · #17744 GP · 3-19-22▼12
41Andrew MacNielD · OHL192025 · #1897 GP · 1-0-1▼6
42Aatos KoivuC · Liiga202024 · #7018 GP · 1-1-2▼13
43Jean-Samuel DaigneaultD · OHL182026 · #22115 GP · 0-2-2▼9
44Daniil SobolevD · VHL232021 · #14215 GP · 3-3-6–
45Filip MesarR · AHL222022 · #2614 GP · 5-3-8▲21
46Ethan SamsonD · AHL232021 · #1748 GP · 0-0-0▼3
47Makar KhaninR · VHL212024 · #21021 GP · 2-7-9▲9
48Rasmus BergqvistD · SHL212024 · #22414 GP · 1-1-2▼10
49Dmitri KostenkoD · KHL232021 · #8711 GP · 2-0-2▼2

NHL odds are the chance he becomes a full-time NHL player — 200 games by age 26, or 100 by 27 for a goalie. Impact odds are the chance he becomes better than the typical regular at his position. WAR if he sticks is the middle outcome among his comparables who made it. The score is a percentile of the expected outcome across every prospect in the league, so forwards, defensemen and goalies sit on one scale. The rankings update every night. Week is the change in his league rank since October 29. Goalie projections are the least certain on the page: goaltending develops late and the history behind it is thin. How the rankings work