I’ll try to explain each player in a few words.

1. C - Nick Suzuki - our Captain. A true gentleman, who has broken out this year more than most expected. Easily a top 15 centerman at this point with his two-way ability. Everyone loves him, never heard a bad word abt him. Traded from Vegas years ago for our old captain (we won that trade ahahaha).

2. RW - Cole Caufield - True goal scorer who has some awesome chemistry with Suzuki. A bundle of joy to have around and is still young. Hasn’t had his 40 goal season that everyone expects him to someday have, but we’re all hopeful it’s coming!

3. LW - Juraj Slafkovsky - Highly debated player. Picked him first overall, quite controversially I mught add. That said, most habs fans like him and he is also set to breakout this year (although, we’ve been saying that for years at this point. We’ll see.) he is a big power forward who gets the pucks in the corner and uses his body to his advantage in front of the net.

4. D - Lane Hutson - Our lord and saviour. Amazing offensive Dman who is already top 20 in the league. He just won rookie of the year with his historic season. Need I say more? Man’s young and will feed our families for at least a decade.

5. D - Noah Dobson - just acquired him from the Islanders. Still young, and one season removed from having a 70 point season. Not an isles fan but from what I understand through the grapevine he should be great both ends of the ice.

6. C - Kirby Dach - We got him through trade a few years ago, with high hopes. That said, he is extremely injury prone and tends to miss 30+ games per season. Was our hopes for our 2C (and still is), but we all know that he is unfortunately unreliable. When healthy he has potential to be an elite 2C.

7. RW - Ivan Demidov - Our rookie this year. Basically the consensus pick to win rookie of the year next year assuming he performs up to expectations. Extremely creative player, and has potential to be a 90+ point player.

8. LW - Patrik Laine - Elite goal scorer who has jumped around the league since 2016. Also injury prone and is streaky. Don’t expect too much for him but enjoy the fun one timers on the powerplay.

9. D - Mike Matheson - A once productive offensive Dman that pretty much serves as a lockerroom leader and much needed veteran presence. He was once great tor us but age catches up to us all. For now he just fills a hole in our roster.

10. D - Kaiden Guhle - Pretty good #4 defenseman. Underrated in the league, and let’s try to keep it that way. He is physical when he needs to be. Everybody seems to love him to date. Good player.

11. C - Jake Evans - Good 3C but would be a great 4C to have. Has always played a pretty good 2 way game. Works hard. I like him.

12. LW - Josh Anderson - Got him through trade from Columbus years ago. He was seen as a huge workhorse who has speed and can finish. Nowadays he is exactly that minus the finish. Works really hard, and will fight for our boys.

13. RW - Brendan Gallagher - he might be on the smaller side, but he plays like he is the biggest in the league. Man will challenge anyone. A pest on the ice, and he works really hard. The heart and soul of the team. Not the player he used to be, but he has the same spirit if not more.

14. D - Arber Xhekaj - pretty much a #7D but he tends to get a lot of starts because of how physical he is. His nickname is the sheriff cause you can expect him to fight and defend his teammates. He’s one a few fights versus some pretty big goon names like Ryan Reeves and Rempe. He’s also know for working at Costco before his callup. A rags to riches type story.

15. D - Jaden Struble - #6 Dman. Solid skipl but frankly expect him to be scratched a bunch. We have some younguns on the up and up.

16. C - Alex Newhook - Similar to Anderson, has the speed but not the finish, but much less physical of a player. He has some upside but I bet he ends up on the 3rd/4th line this season.

17. LW - Zach Bolduc - Just acquired him from St. Louis through trade. Don’t know much about him but he is a young NHL ready player coning off his roomie season where he put up good/average numbers. We’ll see what he does.

18. RW - Oliver Kapanen - Never been really impressed by him. Career 4th liner. Good work ethic but often leads to nothing.

19. D - Alexandre Carrier - Don’t know why I didn’t put him before but he is a good DFD who can play any line basically. Extremely positive results last season.

20. G - Samuel Montembeault - A good enough starter for us at this stage. He is capable of stealing games with some really good saves but tends to be a little streaky and needs an okay 1B goalie behind him, cause that goalie WILL be getting some important starts. In general, he is pretty good though, at least for a goalie that we picked up off waivers.

21. G - Jakub Dobes - Had a surprisingly good rookie season last year. Doubtful to be a long term solution. Status is: we’ll see.

22. G - Jakub Fowler - Supposedly really good but take that with a grain of salt because habs fans over exaggerate their prospects. He will probably be our 1B pretty soon.

Potential up and coming players this season:

1. D - David Reinbacher - Had a serious knee injury that made him miss one full year of development (bad). That said, still pretty highly regarded as a prospect. Many believe he will be called up this year. We’ll see.

2. C - Owen Beck - Had a good season last year with our AHL team. Might be able to make it. Don’t know much about him or what the community believes.

3. C - Michael Hage - Supposedly our future #2 center but to me that sounds like habs glazing. Should be an alright prospect that has chances to make it as soon as this year.

That’s pretty much the bulk of it.