Montréal Canadiens

RW · Montréal Canadiens

Six-foot-three, 226 pounds, and one of the fastest players on the team, which somehow keeps adding up to fourteen goals.

RW · Montréal Canadiens

Thirty-five years old, undrafted, and finally getting a real run of NHL games.

RW · Montréal Canadiens

A first-round pick on his second organisation, still looking for the role that fits him.

D · Montréal Canadiens

An undersized right-shot defenceman who plays nineteen honest minutes and asks for nothing.

RW · Montréal Canadiens

Five-foot-eight, and he just scored fifty-one goals.

C · Montréal Canadiens

The third pick in his draft, seven years on, with 136 career points and a knee that keeps ending his seasons.

C · Montréal Canadiens

A defensive centre back where his career started, with the offence now almost entirely gone.

RW · Montréal Canadiens

A rookie with sixty-two points who was already the most creative player on the ice most nights.

G · Montréal Canadiens

A fifth-round goaltender who took the crease and did not give it back.

D · Montréal Canadiens

A big right-shot defenceman who plays twenty-two minutes and has never quite been the player his best season promised.

C · Montréal Canadiens

A seventh-round pick who made himself into a penalty-killing centre and has outlasted almost everyone drafted above him.

G · Montréal Canadiens

A rookie goaltender with seventeen games and the best numbers of the three, which is either a small sample or the future.

D · Montréal Canadiens

A physical, mobile defenceman with everything required except the ability to stay in the lineup.

D · Montréal Canadiens

Five-foot-nine, a hundred and sixty-two pounds, twenty-four minutes a night, and seventy-eight points.

C · Montréal Canadiens

A second-round Finn who scored twenty-two goals as a rookie and did most of it beside the best young playmaker on the team.

D · Montréal Canadiens

A late-blooming defenceman playing the most difficult twenty-four minutes on a young team.

G · Montréal Canadiens

The incumbent starter who lost the job, in the worst season of his career.

C · Montréal Canadiens

A fast, skilled forward who has never been able to hold a top-six job or stay healthy long enough to try.

LW · Montréal Canadiens

The first overall pick who took three years to look like one, and then scored thirty goals.

D · Montréal Canadiens

A physical third-pairing defenceman who spent last season partnered with the most creative player on the team.

C · Montréal Canadiens

A hundred-point captain who does not have a single spectacular tool, and is the best player on his team by a distance.

LW · Montréal Canadiens

A French winger with real skill who has never turned it into consistent production in seven seasons.

D · Montréal Canadiens

An undrafted, six-foot-four enforcer in an era that supposedly does not have them.