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Montreal Canadiens Top 40 Prospects: The Final List & Fan Vote

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With well over 20,000 words published, we’ve reached the end of our 2024 Montreal Canadiens prospect rankings, with Ivan Demidov anointed as the new top prospect in the organization.

I’d like to start by thanking all our loyal community members for making it one of our most popular series to date. Your support means the world to us, though the fact that the Canadiens have one of the best prospect pools in the entire NHL may have had something to do with the popularity of the 2024 prospect list.

The last time the Habs had such talent and depth at every position was well over a decade ago, however, you could argue this crop of young players has a leg up on the era that featured Max Pacioretty, Carey Price, P.K. Subban, and others. This explains why most fans are riding a surge of hope, the perfect wave for a fanbase that’s enduring a rebuild.

While we wait to see if Demidov, Jacob Fowler, and Lane Hutson can match, or perhaps even surpass the exploits of the prospects of yesteryear, I’d like to invite everyone to publish their own top 40 Montreal Canadiens prospect list by replying in the comments below the article. A list of the players in question will be included at the end of the article. Once we collect enough results we will then confirm whether the majority of Canadiens fans agree with our list.

As a reminder, players must be 23 years old or younger, with fewer than 100 games of NHL experience to qualify for our rankings.

Published Articles

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings: No.40 to No.31  (Jack Smith, Rasmus Bergqvist, Makar Khanin, Alexander Gordin, Rhett Pitlick, Ben Merrill, Quentin Miller, Riley Kidney, William Trudeau, Sam Harris).

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No.30 to No.26 (Jared Davidson, Filip Eriksson, Yevgeni Volokhin, Jakub Dobes, Owen Protz.)

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No.25 to No.21 (Luke Mittelstadt, Dmitri Kostenko, Aatos Koivu, Luke Tuch, Tyler Thorpe.)

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No.20 to No.16 (Logan Sawyer, Florian Xhekaj, Emil Heineman, Sean Farrell, Bogdan Konyushkov.)

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No.15 to No.11  (Vinzenz Rohrer, Oliver Kapanen, Jayden Struble, Filip Mesar, Adam Engstrom.)

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No.10 to No.6  (Justin Barron, Arber Xhekaj, Logan Mailloux, Michael Hage, Owen Beck.)

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No.5 David Reinbacher

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No.4  Joshua Roy

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No. 3 Jacob Fowler

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No.2 Lane Hutson

Montreal Canadiens Prospect Rankings – No.1 Ivan Demidov

 

Complete List Of Habs Prospects Who Qualified For The Rankings

Ivan Demidov
Lane Hutson
Jacob Fowler
Joshua Roy
David Reinbacher
Michael Hage
Owen Beck
Logan Mailloux
Arber Xhekaj
Justin Barron
Adam Engstrom
Jayden Struble
Filip Mesar
Oliver Kapanen
Vinzenz Rohrer
Bogdan Konyshushkov
Sean Farrell
Emil Heineman
Florian Xhekaj
Logan Sawyer
Tyler Thorpe
Luke Tuch
Aatos Koivu
Dmitri Kostenko
Luke Mittlestadt
Owen Protz
Jakub Dobes
Yevgeni Volohkin
Filip Eriksson
Jared Davidson
Sam Harris
William Trudeau
Riley Kidney
Ben Merrill
Rhett Pitlick
Alexandre Gordin
Makar Khanin
Quentin Miller
Jack Smith
Rasmus Bergqvist
Blake Biondi
Ty Smilanic
Daniil Sobolev
Emmett Croteau
Joe Vrbetic
Mikus Vecvanags

If the complete list of prospects is not displaying correctly on your device you can click here to access a Google Document with the same information. It should be noted that Rhett Pitlick is no longer a member of the organization, however, he was included in the list as we published the article prior to the Canadiens releasing him. It’s a situation that risks happening with more regularity moving forward, as the team clearly has an overstocked prospect list, which means the bar to earn an entry-level contract has been raised significantly.

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Louis kirschner

I like the top 10 prospect names, after that i don’t know them to comment.

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Marc Dumont

Very fair. I’ll be honest, I spend endless hours watching these guys, but in many cases I consulted with scouts from their region to ensure I had a good read on them.

And Maurice Richard knows I could be way off the mark with my list.

Thanks for reading/commenting!

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Mario

Thank you. My only real question mark is having Roy ahead of Reinbacher.

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Scott

I think Roy is to high on this list

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John

I think everyone will fully agree on the top 2 or 3…. after that, I’m not so sure 😉
Perhaps I put too much on the ceiling and not enough on the floor, but I’d have Hage, Reinbacher, Mailloux, Xhekaj, and possibly even Beck all ahead of Roy – nothing against Joshua, I just like the other guys ceilings (even if most of them still have more to prove)…
A list of 40 is too much for me to attempt right now, but my version of our top 10 is more like this:
Demidov,
Hutson,
Fowler,
Reinbacher,
Hage,
Xhekaj,
Mailloux,
Beck,
Roy,
Sawyer (I heavily bump him up – I see a future top 6 in this kid) 😉

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Pierre B.

My top 13 are prospects that I expect to become NHL players, most of them playing for the CH.
1. Ivan Demidov, 2. Lane Hutson, 3. David Reinbacher, 4. Joshua Roy, 5. Jacob Fowler, 6. Arber Xhekaj, 7. Michael Hage, 8. Owen Beck, 9. Logan Mailloux, 10. Oliver Kapanen, 11. Justin Barron, 12. Jayden Struble, 13. Adam Engstrom.
My 14 to 25 is a mix of prospects who either have potential to make it in the NHL as depth players with a relatively high certainty, or have star potential, but with low probability of making it to the NHL.
14. Filip Mesar, 15. Emil Heineman, 16. Bogdan Konyshushkov, 17. Florian Xhekaj, 18. Sean Farrell, 19. Vinzenz Rohrer, 20. Jakub Dobes, 21. Luke Tuch, 22. William Trudeau, 23. Yevgeni Volohkin, 24. Riley Kidney, 25. Filip Eriksson.
My 26 to 30 are prospects who I believe have the most potential to raise in my rankings over the next year.
26. Quentin Miller, 27. Sam Harris, 28. Aatos Koivu, 29. Logan Sawyer, 30. Owen Protz
The remaining could be in any order, but I feel it is irrelevant to ranked them.
I’m quite high on Roy because he’s a really smart player who always exceeded expectations since being drafted. I expect him to improve his skating with time and become a mainstay in the top-6 despite the influx of great talent. He can complement top offensive players while being a scoring threat himself.
I’m also high on A. Xhekaj because of how improved his game was when playing with Savard on the 2nd-pair. He also makes the rest of the team better by his mere presence on the bench.

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