Oct 1, 2024; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens right wing Joshua Roy (89) skates away with the puck against Ottawa Senators defenseman Nick Jensen (3) during the second period at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images
Following the Montreal Canadiens’ win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night, the Habs announced the first wave of cuts. Twenty-four of the players will be reassigned to the AHL for the start of the Laval Rocket’s training camp, while Vinzenz Rohrer will return to the Zurich Lions in the Swiss NL.
The players in this first large wave are:
Forwards
Vincent Arseneau
Laurent Dauphin
Jared Davidson
Will Dineen
Joseph Dunlap
Mark Estapa
Egor Guriunov
Riley Kidney
Filip Mesar
Israel Mianscum
Vinzenz Rohrer (Assigned to Swiss NL)
Joshua Roy
Xavier Simoneau
Tyler Thorpe
Luke Tuch
Defencemen
Joshua Jacobs
Darick Louis-Jean
Charles Martin
Ryan O’Rourke
Tobie Paquette-Bisson
Wyatte Wylie
Goaltenders
Jacob Fowler
Benjamin Gaudreau
Hunter Jones
Kevin Mandolese (Tryout)
They join Owen Protz who left camp several days ago to join his Brantford Bulldogs in OHL regular-season play.
That leaves the following 34 players with the team as it enters the final week of camp:
Forwards (19)
#17 Josh Anderson
#62 Owen Beck
#60 Alex Belzile
#27 Sammy Blais
#76 Zachary Bolduc
#13 Cole Caufield
#82 Lucas Condotta
#77 Kirby Dach
#93 Ivan Demidov
#71 Jake Evans
#57 Sean Farrell
#11 Brendan Gallagher
#91 Oliver Kapanen
#92 Patrik Laine
#15 Alex Newhook
#20 Juraj Slafkovský
#14 Nick Suzuki
#90 Joe Veleno
#63 Florian Xhekaj
Defencemen (12)
#45 Alexandre Carrier
#44 Nate Clurman
#37 Marc Del Gaizo
#53 Noah Dobson
#42 Adam Engström
#21 Kaiden Guhle
#48 Lane Hutson
#8 Mike Matheson
#64 David Reinbacher (Injured)
#47 Jayden Struble
#84 William Trudeau (Injured)
#72 Arber Xhekaj
Goaltenders (3)
#75 Jakub Dobeš
#34 Kaapo Kähkönen
#35 Samuel Montembeault