Having invited 61 players to participate in training camp, the Montreal Canadiens had whittled their roster down as pre-season was set to start. After their game on Thursday night, the team announced a cut of seven more players.
The seven players let go are:
- Simon Bourque (D, AHL)
- Thomas Ebbing (F, AHL)
- Stefan Leblanc (D, AHL)
- Tom Parisi (D, AHL)
- Niki Petti (F, NHL)
- Yannick Veilleux (F, AHL)
- Antoine Waked (F, AHL)/
Jeremiah Addison, who had been slated to begin his professional career with the Laval Rocket in October, was also forced to miss the training period entirely after sustaining a shoulder injury that required surgery. He is out indefinitely as he recovers.
The Canadiens also lost Noah Juulsen to a foot injury just as pre-season started.
That leaves 44 players remaining at training camp. Those still with the team for at least the first pre-season game on Monday are:
- Karl Alzner (D, NHL)
- Daniel Audette (F, AHL)
- Jordie Benn (D, NHL)
- David Broll (F, AHL)
- Paul Byron (F, NHL)
- Daniel Carr (F, AHL)
- Phillip Danault (F, NHL)
- Brandon Davidson (D, NHL/AHL)
- Jacob de la Rose (F, NHL/AHL)
- Jonathan Drouin (F, NHL)
- Markus Eisenschmid (F, AHL)
- Byron Froese (F, AHL)
- Zachary Fucale (G, AHL/ECHL)
- Alex Galchenyuk (F, NHL)
- Brendan Gallagher (F, NHL)
- Eric Gélinas (D, tryout)
- Jeremy Grégoire (F, AHL)
- Ales Hemsky (F, NHL)
- Peter Holland (F, AHL)
- Charles Hudon (F, AHL)
- Jakub Jerabek (D, NHL/AHL)
- Artturi Lehkonen (F, NHL)
- Brett Lernout (D, AHL)
- Charlie Lindgren (G, AHL)
- Andreas Martinsen (F, NHL)
- Victor Mete (D, OHL)
- Michael McCarron (F, AHL)
- Michael McNiven (G, AHL/ECHL)
- Torrey Mitchell (F, NHL)
- Al Montoya (G, NHL)
- Joe Morrow (D NHL/AHL)
- Max Pacioretty (F NHL)
- Jeff Petry (D, NHL)
- Tomas Plekanec (F, NHL)
- Carey Price (G, NHL)
- Zach Redmond (D, AHL)
- Martin Réway (F, AHL)
- Nikita Scherbak (F, AHL)
- David Schlemko (D, NHL)
- Andrew Shaw (F, NHL)
- Mark Streit (D, NHL)
- Matt Taormina (D, AHL)
- Chris Terry (F, AHL)
- Shea Weber (D, NHL)/
A selection of these players will be heading to Ottawa as the Canadiens visit the Senators on Saturday night.
