With Monday’s deadline to reduce the NHL roster to 23 players looming, the Canadiens have placed nine players on waivers with the aim of assigning them to the Laval Rocket. The players are:
Alex Belzile
Brett Berard
Kaapo Kähkönen
Hunter McKown
Sasha Pastujov
Samuel Poulin
Ethan Samson
Maksymilian Szuber
Reilly Walsh
A notable omission from the list who requires waivers to go to the AHL is Lucas Condotta. It was announced that he is dealing with an injury and will miss about a month as he recovers.
The team will find out in 24 hours whether those players have cleared waivers and can join the AHL team. A number of them are new additions made in the off-season, and some, like Brett Berard and Sasha Pastujov, could be options for recalls during the season.
With these players set to go to the AHL, the remaining training camp roster contains the following players:
Forwards (21)
#17 Josh Anderson
#62 Owen Beck (waivers exempt)
#58 Dillan Bentley (AHL contract)
#76 Zachary Bolduc
#13 Cole Caufield
#82 Lucas Condotta (injured)
#77 Kirby Dach
#24 Phillip Danault
#36 Laurent Dauphin (AHL contract)
#49 Jared Davidson (waivers exempt)
#93 Ivan Demidov (waivers exempt)
#71 Jake Evans
#91 Oliver Kapanen
#22 Chris Kreider
#46 Filip Mešár (waivers exempt)
#15 Alex Newhook
#20 Juraj Slafkovský
#14 Nick Suzuki
#85 Alexandre Texier
#54 Tyler Thorpe (waivers exempt)
#63 Florian Xhekaj (waivers exempt)
Defencemen (12)
#45 Alexandre Carrier
#53 Noah Dobson
#42 Adam Engström (waivers exempt)
#48 Lane Hutson
#21 Kaiden Guhle (injured)
#8 Mike Matheson
#65 Luke Mittelstadt (waivers exempt)
#94 Bryce Pickford (injured / waivers exempt)
#68 Owen Protz (waivers exempt)
#64 David Reinbacher (waivers exempt)
#47 Jayden Struble
#72 Arber Xhekaj
Goaltenders (3)
#75 Jakub Dobeš
#32 Jacob Fowler (waivers exempt)
#35 Samuel Montembeault
