Roster · 2025-26 · Montréal Canadiens

Montréal Canadiens, by the numbers

Team

Montréal Canadiens

Season2025-26

Each player is rated out of 100 against NHL players at his position. The bar underneath is his wins above replacement, on a league scale with replacement level marked.

Forwards · 20

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

R98Cole Caufield81 GP · 1473 min+2.13WAR

C95Nick Suzuki82 GP · 1707 min+1.90WAR

R76Zachary Bolduc78 GP · 1063 min+1.00WAR

R62Ivan Demidov82 GP · 1271 min+0.72WAR

C55Jake Evans68 GP · 1044 min+0.60WAR

C49Phillip Danault75 GP · 1168 min+0.48WAR

R43Brendan Gallagher77 GP · 951 min+0.43WAR

L35Alexandre Texier51 GP · 696 min+0.32WAR

C35Alex Newhook42 GP · 608 min+0.31WAR

C34Joe Veleno61 GP · 738 min+0.31WAR

L33Juraj Slafkovský82 GP · 1520 min+0.29WAR

C25Kirby Dach37 GP · 505 min+0.21WAR

C21Oliver Kapanen82 GP · 1187 min+0.14WAR

R19Josh Anderson72 GP · 1010 min+0.13WAR

L—Sammy Blais21 GP · 177 min+0.02WAR

R—Patrik Laine5 GP · 63 min+0.02WAR

C—Owen Beck15 GP · 139 min+0.01WAR

R—Joshua Roy3 GP · 29 min+0.00WAR

L—Florian Xhekaj5 GP · 48 min-0.00WAR

C—Jared Davidson10 GP · 87 min-0.01WAR

Defense · 9

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D99Lane Hutson82 GP · 1949 min+2.28WAR

D53Alexandre Carrier73 GP · 1393 min+0.44WAR

D52Noah Dobson80 GP · 1799 min+0.40WAR

D46Mike Matheson78 GP · 1885 min+0.33WAR

D45Jayden Struble59 GP · 827 min+0.32WAR

D44Kaiden Guhle39 GP · 759 min+0.29WAR

D3Arber Xhekaj65 GP · 743 min-0.09WAR

D—Adam Engstrom15 GP · 196 min+0.01WAR

D—David Reinbacher2 GP · 26 min+0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

Goalie WAR reaches higher than a skater's, so the bar uses its own league scale.

G83Jakub Dobes43 GP · 2538 min+2.94WAR

G61Jacob Fowler17 GP · 1011 min+1.49WAR

G14Samuel Montembeault25 GP · 1418 min-0.24WAR

A rating needs a minimum workload. Players below it show an em dash rather than a rank built on too few minutes, and are listed last by WAR. How this is calculated