Montreal Canadiens: Predicting Habs Final Cuts At Each Position

The Montreal Canadiens started camp with 72 players on the roster just over a week ago.

With a series of cuts, demotions, reassignments, players heading back to Europe and Laval Rocket training camp opening, the team has less than half of those players remaining in camp.

At current count, there are 28 players still healthy at Canadiens camp. Carey Price, Chris Wideman and Christian Dvorak are also still listed on the roster, but they are injured and will not be playing when the regular season begins next Wednesday, so they are not being counted at all in this exercise.

Cutting the roster down from 72 to 28 was not all that difficult. There are not a lot of controversial decisions made with the first few waves of cuts. Sure, there is an argument to be made that a young player like David Reinbacher, Owen Beck or Joshua Roy played well enough to stick around longer, but the team is obviously focused on long term development and will let them progress at a lower level this season.

Even those decisions were not really controversial, in fact they were mostly met with applause from the fan base who seem to preach patience more than most general managers around the league.

With just two preseason games remaining on the schedule, the team is running out of opportunities to evaluate the players still in camp. These two games will be crucial for anyone on the bubble who is trying to start the season with the team.

While those two games will likely tell the rest of the story here, we have seen plenty already in training camp and are prepared to make our predictions for who will be let go.

Here, we predict the final handful of cuts that are yet to be made, and break down the decisions by each position.