The Canadiens announced several player moves Monday morning ahead of the NHL’s 5 p.m. deadline for teams to announce their opening-day rosters.
The Canadiens sent defencemen Logan Mailloux, Adam Engstrom and William Trudeau down down to the AHL’s Laval Rocket, along with forwards Joshua Roy, Lucas Condotta and Brandon Gignac, as well as goalie Jakub Dobes.
That means forwards Alex Barré-Boulet, Oliver Kapanen and Emil Heineman appear to have made the team, along with defenceman Lane Hutson. They were all on the ice for Monday’s practice at the CN Sports Complex in Brossard.
The Canadiens also announced that defenceman Jayden Struble would miss Monday’s practice, taking a therapy day instead.
The Canadiens will open the regular season Wednesday at the Bell Centre against the Toronto Maple Leafs (7 p.m., SN, TVA Sports).
Here’s how the forward lines and defence pairings looked at practice Monday.
FORWARDS
Juraj Slafkovsky – Nick Suzuki – Cole Caufield
Alex Newhook – Kirby Dach – Joel Armia
Alex Barré-Boulet – Christian Dvorak – Josh Anderson
Emil Heineman – Jake Evans – Brendan Gallagher
Extra forwards: Michael Pezzetta and Oliver Kapanan
DEFENCE
Mike Matheson – Kaiden Guhle
Lane Hutson – David Savard
Arber Xhekaj – Justin Barron
Therapy day: Jayden Struble
The Canadiens spent the last part of practice working on the power play. Here’s how the two units looked:
First Unit