9 who qualify by my count:
Cracknell (100+ career games)
Greening (100+ career games)
Jooris (100+ career games)
Kapanen (30+ games last season)
Borgman (30+ games last season)
Carrick (100+ career games)
Marcinin (100+ career games)
Sandin (first round draft pick from most recent draft)
McElhinney (100+ career games, dressed 50+ games last season)
Lol. I literally think they want to see if our Marlies team can beat the Habs NHL team.so something like..
Andreas Johnsson - Par Lindholm - Kasperi Kapanen
Pierre Engvall - Adam Brooks - Jeremy Bracco
Carl Grundstrom - Adam Cracknell - Trevor Moore
Dmytro Timashov - Josh Jooris - Colin Greening
Borgman - Carrick
Sandin - Holl
Marincin - Subban
Curtis McElhinney
Garret Sparks
Well. They'll be a hard-working bunch.
Roster released. Pretty much the AHL
squad with the exception of Johnsson-Lindholm-Kapanen, as well as Sparks-McBackup
It still is a rule, it was just removed for Calgary and Boston this pre season because half their team went to China.I think I read somewhere that it isn't a thing anymore. That roster is bush league.
Yeah at this stage of their career, these 2 need to show why they have a spot unlike the rest who show they are fighting for a spot.Johnsson and kap have to pick it up
This should be a kick in the arese
Looks like a final cuts type roster.
Isn't there a minimum number of NHLers you're supposed to ice in pre-season?
It's gonna be ugly tonight.
Yeah at this stage of their career, these 2 need to show why they have a spot unlike the rest who show they are fighting for a spot.
They started to come on from the 2nd period on of the last game. I think they will be fine, unfortunately not everyone is in final form after 4 preseason games. It looks like it takes these 2 a bunch of games to hit their stride. Probably why Kapanen didn’t make the roster straight up last year. But after a handful of games, they are going again. Slow starters.It’s probably a big reason why they are in this game. It’s a test for that line I think.
Like, remove that line and replace them with other guys and we still meet the Veterans Minimum. They easily could be playing Wednesday with the main group, but I think Babcock is challenging them to step up more than their first two games.
Not that they have been bad or anything, but this is the chance for them to have the focus on them and maybe prove they shouldn’t be on the 4th line
So who does this leave to play with the big boys in lieu of Johnsson-Lindholm-Kapanen?
McElhinny and Sparks splitting the game again? That's the main roster battle I'll be watching. They'll be in tough with this AHL squad.
I like Subban but I'd rather see Lilly play. oh well. this roster is still fairly interesting with guys like Bracco and Engvall
Yuck, what a lineup.
Feel for those at the ACC but this is why you don't buy pre-season tickets until the roster is announced.
This will be an easy one to miss.
Montreal's lineup.
Was just about to say the same thing. Not sure if that's their A teamSo are the Habs throwing out their AHL roster too?
I cant tell.....