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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
2Michael HageC · NCAA202024 · #219 GP · 4-16-20▼5
3Gleb PugachyovR · MHL182026 · #2610 GP · 2-2-4▲4
4Florian XhekajL · NHL222023 · #1017 GP · 1-2-3▼2
5John MooneyC · NCAA192025 · #1138 GP · 1-1-2▼5
6Hayden PaupanekisC · WHL192025 · #698 GP · 2-1-3 NCAA▲7
7Samuel PoulinR · AHL252019 · #219 GP · 2-3-5▲5
8Logan SawyerC · NCAA202024 · #788 GP · 4-9-13▲6
9Filip ErikssonC · SHL212023 · #16514 GP · 4-3-7▼95
10Tyler ThorpeR · AHL212024 · #13010 GP · 0-1-1▼50
11Sasha PastujovR · AHL232021 · #6613 GP · 6-5-11▲5
12Parker TrottierL · WHL182026 · #1894 GP · 2-1-3▲4
13Hunter McKownC · AHL24Undrafted14 GP · 3-2-5–
14Sam HarrisL · NCAA222023 · #13310 GP · 5-5-10▲16
15Tyler DeakosR · WHL192026 · #22416 GP · 5-10-15▼7
16Ben MerrillC · NCAA202024 · #16610 GP · 2-4-6▲28
17Wesley RoystonR · OHL182026 · #19018 GP · 3-2-5▼12
18Vinzenz RohrerC · NL222022 · #7513 GP · 8-8-16▲28
19Jared DavidsonC · AHL242022 · #13013 GP · 1-4-5▼16
20Aatos KoivuC · Liiga202024 · #7018 GP · 1-1-2▼13
21Filip MesarR · AHL222022 · #2614 GP · 5-3-8▲21
22Makar KhaninR · VHL212024 · #21021 GP · 2-7-9▲9
23Alexander GordinR · VHL252020 · #17120 GP · 4-3-7▼1
24Jack 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