Montreal Canadiens Or How I Learned To Love Waiver Pickups

The Montreal Canadiens currently have four players on their roster that are waiver pickups. When a team puts a player on waivers, it often means that they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. The player is good, but not good enough. Therefore, you run the risk of exposing him before sending said player to the minors. Sometimes, it results in a team claiming the player and you end up losing him for nothing.

Sami Niku and Alex Belzile were the latest players put on waivers this past January and both went unclaimed. However, we can be reminded of Adam Brooks, who had a very short tenure with the Canadiens this year after being claimed from the Toronto Maple Leafs, who then got claimed from the Vegas Golden Knights. Then waived again. And claimed by the Leafs again. Who waived him again. Who then got claimed by the Winnipeg Jets.

The Air Miles racked up by the guy.

Noah Juulsen is another recent player who the Canadiens lost to the Florida Panthers and who now plays for the Vancouver Canucks although he has spent the majority of the season with the Abbotsford Canucks of the AHL.

Here are the four players currently on the Montreal Canadiens’ roster who have been acquired via waivers and how they’ve fared thus far.