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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
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Alexander ZharovskyR · KHL192025 · #3423 GP · 6-12-18▲4
2Jacob FowlerG · NHL212023 · #6910 GP · .925▲1
3Bryce PickfordD · WHL202025 · #8155 GP · 45-38-83▲1
4Michael HageC · NCAA202024 · #219 GP · 4-16-20▼5
5David ReinbacherD · NHL212023 · #51 GP · 0-0-0–
6Gleb PugachyovR · MHL182026 · #2610 GP · 2-2-4▲4
7Adam EngstromD · NHL222022 · #9211 GP · 1-1-2▲10
8Yevgeni VolokhinG · VHL212023 · #14411 GP · .923▲20
9Florian XhekajL · NHL222023 · #1017 GP · 1-2-3▼2
10Arseni RadkovG · QMJHL192025 · #8210 GP · .916▲6
11Alexis CournoyerG · NCAA202025 · #1454 GP · .947▼1
12Timofei RuntsoD · NCAA192026 · #576 GP · 1-0-1▼7
13John MooneyC · NCAA192025 · #1138 GP · 1-1-2▼5
14Cooper CleavesD · NCAA202026 · #934 GP · 0-0-0▼1
15Quentin MillerG · NCAA212023 · #1289 GP · .922–
16Mikus VecvanagsG · BCHL202024 · #13416 GP · .922▲31
17Hayden PaupanekisC · WHL192025 · #698 GP · 2-1-3 NCAA▲7
18Bogdan KonyushkovD · KHL232023 · #11022 GP · 2-4-6▼18
19Brayden KlimpkeD · WHL182026 · #11716 GP · 5-14-19▼17
20Owen ProtzD · AHL202024 · #10211 GP · 0-1-1▼33
21Samuel PoulinR · AHL252019 · #219 GP · 2-3-5▲5
22Logan SawyerC · NCAA202024 · #788 GP · 4-9-13▲6
23Filip ErikssonC · SHL212023 · #16514 GP · 4-3-7▼95
24Maxon VigD · NCAA202025 · #2099 GP · 1-4-5▲2
25Emmett CroteauG · NCAA222022 · #1624 GP · .962▲1
26Tyler ThorpeR · AHL212024 · #13010 GP · 0-1-1▼50
27Luke MittelstadtD · AHL232023 · #19714 GP · 5-13-18▲279
28Sasha PastujovR · AHL232021 · #6613 GP · 6-5-11▲5
29Parker TrottierL · WHL182026 · #1894 GP · 2-1-3▲4
30Hunter McKownC · AHL24Undrafted14 GP · 3-2-5–
31Sam HarrisL · NCAA222023 · #13310 GP · 5-5-10▲16
32Maksymilian SzuberD · AHL242022 · #16312 GP · 0-1-1▼38
33Tyler DeakosR · WHL192026 · #22416 GP · 5-10-15▼7
34Ben MerrillC · NCAA202024 · #16610 GP · 2-4-6▲28
35Wesley RoystonR · OHL182026 · #19018 GP · 3-2-5▼12
36Vinzenz RohrerC · NL222022 · #7513 GP · 8-8-16▲28
37Jared DavidsonC · AHL242022 · #13013 GP · 1-4-5▼16
38Carlos HandelD · QMJHL192025 · #17744 GP · 3-19-22▼12
39Andrew MacNielD · OHL192025 · #1897 GP · 1-0-1▼6
40Aatos KoivuC · Liiga202024 · #7018 GP · 1-1-2▼13
41Jean-Samuel DaigneaultD · OHL182026 · #22115 GP · 0-2-2▼9
42Daniil SobolevD · VHL232021 · #14215 GP · 3-3-6–
43Filip MesarR · AHL222022 · #2614 GP · 5-3-8▲21
44Ethan SamsonD · AHL232021 · #1748 GP · 0-0-0▼3
45Makar KhaninR · VHL212024 · #21021 GP · 2-7-9▲9
46Rasmus BergqvistD · SHL212024 · #22414 GP · 1-1-2▼10
47Dmitri KostenkoD · KHL232021 · #8711 GP · 2-0-2▼2
48Alexander GordinR · VHL252020 · #17120 GP · 4-3-7▼1
49Jack SmithC · NCAA242020 · #10240 GP · 11-11-22–

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