News: Opening Night 23 Man Rosters

uncleben

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Was really curious about what rookies made it to opening day, so I compiled a list.

It includes:
  • players who have played games but qualify for the Calder Trophy (no more than 25 games in any single preceding season nor in six or more games in each of any two preceding seasons)
  • players who have never played a single regular season game (Calder eligible or not)

Anaheim:
Max Comtois, Isac Lundestrom, (Sam Steel - Inj.)
Arizona: Eric Comrie, Barrett Hayton
Boston: Conor Clifton, Karson Kuhlman, (Anton Blidh - Inj.)
Buffalo: (Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen - Inj.)
Calgary: (Jusso Valimaki - Inj.)
Carolina: Martin Necas
Chicago: Dominik Kubalik, Alex Nylander, (Kirby Dach - Inj.)
Colorado: Pavel Francouz, Vladislav Kamenev, Cale Makar, Conor Timmins
Columbus: Emil Bemstrom
, Vladislav Gavrikov, Jakob Lilja, Elvis Merlikins, Alexandre Texier, (Liam Foudy - Inj.)
Dallas: Denis Gurianov
Detroit: Taro Hirose, (Chase Pearson - Inj.)
Edmonton: Ethan Bear, Gaeten Haas, Joakim Nygard, Patrick Russell, (Logan Day - Inj.), (Ryan Mantha - Inj.), (Joel Perrson - Inj.)
Florida: Samuel Montembeault
Los Angeles: Tobias Bjornfot, Carl Grundstrom, Blake Lizotte, Matt Roy, (Gabe Vilardi - Inj.)
Minnesota: Carson Soucy, (Mason Shaw - Inj.)
Montreal: Cale Fleury, Nick Suzuki, (Joel Teasdale - Inj.)
Nashville: Dante Fabbro
New Jersey: Mackenzie Blackwood, Jesper Boqvist, Nikita Gusev, Jack Hughes
NY Islanders:
Noah Dobson, (Bobo Carpenter - Inj.), (Mitchell Vande Sompel - Inj.), (Bode Wilde - Inj.)
NY Rangers: Adam Fox, Libor Hajek, Kaapo Kakko, (Yegor Rykov - Inj.)
Ottawa: Drake Batherson, Erik Brannstrom, Filip Chlapik, Scott Sabourin
Philadelphia: Connor Bunnaman, Samuel Morin, Carsen Twarynski

Pittsburgh: John Marino, (Justin Almeida - Inj.)
San Jose: Lean Bergmann, Mario Ferraro, Dylan Gambrell, Danil Yurtaykin
St. Louis: (Erik Foley - Inj.), (Jordan Kyrou - Inj.)
Tampa Bay: Carter Verhaeghe, (Daniel Walcott - Inj.)
Toronto: Justin Holl, Timothy Liljegren, Ilya Mikheyev, Trevor Moore, Rasmus Sandin, Dmytro Timashov, (Mason Marchment - Inj.)
Vancouver: Thatcher Demko, Quinn Hughes
Vegas: Cody Glass, Jimmy Schuldt
, (Zach Whitecloud - Inj.)
Washington: Martin Fehervary, Tyler Lewington, Ilya Samsonov, (Kody Clark - Inj.), (Riley Sutter - Inj.)
Winnipeg: David Gustafsson, Ville Heinola, Tucker Poolman


Mostly just went by the NHL.com opening night rosters, but not 100% convinced about those, so please let me know if I am missing anyone, or erroneously including anyone.
 

Joey Bones

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Was really curious about what rookies made it to opening day, so I compiled a list.

It includes:
  • players who have played games but qualify for the Calder Trophy (no more than 25 games in any single preceding season nor in six or more games in each of any two preceding seasons)
  • players who have never played a single regular season game (Calder eligible or not)

Anaheim:
Max Comtois, Isac Lundestrom, (Sam Steel - Inj.)
Arizona: Eric Comrie, Barrett Hayton
Boston: Conor Clifton, Karson Kuhlman, (Anton Blidh - Inj.)
Buffalo: (Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen - Inj.)
Calgary: (Jusso Valimaki - Inj.)
Carolina: Martin Necas
Chicago: Dominik Kubalik, Alex Nylander, (Kirby Dach - Inj.)
Colorado: Pavel Francouz, Vladislav Kamenev, Cale Makar, Conor Timmins
Columbus: Emil Bemstrom
, Vladislav Gavrikov, Jakob Lilja, Elvis Merlikins, Alexandre Texier, (Liam Foudy - Inj.)
Dallas: Denis Gurianov
Detroit: Taro Hirose, (Chase Pearson - Inj.)
Edmonton: Ethan Bear, Gaeten Haas, Joakim Nygard, Patrick Russell, (Logan Day - Inj.), (Ryan Mantha - Inj.), (Joel Perrson - Inj.)
Florida: Samuel Montembeault
Los Angeles: Tobias Bjornfot, Carl Grundstrom, Blake Lizotte, Matt Roy, (Gabe Vilardi - Inj.)
Minnesota: Carson Soucy, (Mason Shaw - Inj.)
Montreal: Cale Fleury, Nick Suzuki, (Joel Teasdale - Inj.)
Nashville: Dante Fabbro
New Jersey: Mackenzie Blackwood, Jesper Boqvist, Nikita Gusev, Jack Hughes
NY Islanders:
Noah Dobson, (Bobo Carpenter - Inj.), (Mitchell Vande Sompel - Inj.), (Bode Wilde - Inj.)
NY Rangers: Adam Fox, Libor Hajek, Kaapo Kakko, (Yegor Rykov - Inj.)
Ottawa: Drake Batherson, Erik Brannstrom, Filip Chlapik, Scott Sabourin
Philadelphia: Connor Bunnaman, Samuel Morin, Carsen Twarynski

Pittsburgh: John Marino, (Justin Almeida - Inj.)
San Jose: Lean Bergmann, Mario Ferraro, Dylan Gambrell, Danil Yurtaykin
St. Louis: (Erik Foley - Inj.), (Jordan Kyrou - Inj.)
Tampa Bay: Carter Verhaeghe, (Daniel Walcott - Inj.)
Toronto: Justin Holl, Timothy Liljegren, Ilya Mikheyev, Trevor Moore, Rasmus Sandin, Dmytro Timashov, (Mason Marchment - Inj.)
Vancouver: Thatcher Demko, Quinn Hughes
Vegas: Cody Glass, Jimmy Schuldt
, (Zach Whitecloud - Inj.)
Washington: Martin Fehervary, Tyler Lewington, Ilya Samsonov, (Kody Clark - Inj.), (Riley Sutter - Inj.)
Winnipeg: David Gustafsson, Ville Heinola, Tucker Poolman


Mostly just went by the NHL.com opening night rosters, but not 100% convinced about those, so please let me know if I am missing anyone, or erroneously including anyone.

Great list!! Think you nailed them all. If I'm not mistaken, though, I think Lias Andersson can still go for the Calder, but I could be wrong....
 
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