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
1Bryce PickfordD · WHL202025 · #8155 GP · 45-38-83▲1
2David ReinbacherD · NHL212023 · #51 GP · 0-0-0–
3Adam EngstromD · NHL222022 · #9211 GP · 1-1-2▲10
4Timofei RuntsoD · NCAA192026 · #576 GP · 1-0-1▼7
5Cooper CleavesD · NCAA202026 · #934 GP · 0-0-0▼1
6Bogdan KonyushkovD · KHL232023 · #11022 GP · 2-4-6▼18
7Brayden KlimpkeD · WHL182026 · #11716 GP · 5-14-19▼17
8Owen ProtzD · AHL202024 · #10211 GP · 0-1-1▼33
9Maxon VigD · NCAA202025 · #2099 GP · 1-4-5▲2
10Luke MittelstadtD · AHL232023 · #19714 GP · 5-13-18▲279
11Maksymilian SzuberD · AHL242022 · #16312 GP · 0-1-1▼38
12Carlos HandelD · QMJHL192025 · #17744 GP · 3-19-22▼12
13Andrew MacNielD · OHL192025 · #1897 GP · 1-0-1▼6
14Jean-Samuel DaigneaultD · OHL182026 · #22115 GP · 0-2-2▼9
15Daniil SobolevD · VHL232021 · #14215 GP · 3-3-6–
16Ethan SamsonD · AHL232021 · #1748 GP · 0-0-0▼3
17Rasmus BergqvistD · SHL212024 · #22414 GP · 1-1-2▼10
18Dmitri KostenkoD · KHL232021 · #8711 GP · 2-0-2▼2

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