{"id":306774,"date":"2025-11-25T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306774\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:00:09","slug":"canadiens-reassign-joshua-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306774\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens Reassign Joshua Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canadiens announced<\/a> they\u2019ve reassigned forward\u00a0Joshua Roy<\/a>\u00a0to AHL Laval. With no IR activations expected soon, the Habs are set to operate with an open roster spot for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Roy, 22, appears to have hit something of a plateau in his development. The 2021 fifth-round pick showed out much better than expected in his first pro season, earning 13 goals and 32 points in 41 games with Laval back in 2023-24. That came on the heels of Roy posting back-to-back First All-Star Team campaigns in the QMJHL following his draft year, so his stock had been on the rise for some time.<\/p>\n

Since then, though, Roy has been virtually the same player he was as a rookie. He still hasn\u2019t gotten as long a leash as he did in his first pro season, when multiple call-ups resulted in him notching four goals and nine points in 23 games for the Habs. His usage and production slipped to two goals in 12 games last year, and he\u2019s now only played in three of the nine games he\u2019s been rostered for this season.<\/p>\n

During that time, Roy\u2019s AHL production has remained stagnant. After producing 0.78 points per game in 2023-24, that number dropped slightly to 0.74 last year and is at 0.70 through 10 games this season. With Roy failing to carve out consistent minutes at the NHL level despite\u00a0Kirby Dach<\/a>,\u00a0Patrik Laine<\/a>, and\u00a0Alex Newhook<\/a>\u00a0all dealing with long-term injuries, there\u2019s an increasing risk of him topping out as something of a tweener.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, he\u2019s still only four years out from his draft date and, as a late-round pick, a longer development track should have been expected. He\u2019s still got a couple of years of runway before the Habs could decide to cut ties, although they\u2019ll have their first opportunity to do so this summer as he\u2019s in the final season of his entry-level contract. A non-tender is unlikely considering how he burst onto the scene, but the Quebec native needs to keep up his current scoring in the minors \u2013 hopefully inching closer to a point per game \u2013 in order to avoid one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens announced they\u2019ve reassigned forward\u00a0Joshua Roy\u00a0to AHL Laval. With no IR activations expected soon, the Habs are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,174639,5790,575,85,206],"class_list":["post-306774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-joshua-roy","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}