The place Are They Now? 2021 Montreal Canadiens

The Montreal Canadiens at the moment are three seasons faraway from enjoying within the Stanley Cup Remaining. In an ever-evolving sports activities world, roster turnover is an anticipated a part of the enterprise, and a championship contender just like the Canadiens in 2021 isn’t any exception.

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Out of the 24 gamers to decorate through the playoff run, solely six stay energetic with the membership, which means 18 skaters from that drive to the Remaining are enjoying some other place or retired.

Right now, we wish to dive into the roster turnover and see what has occurred to the 2021 Canadiens, who got here inside three victories of hoisting their twenty fifth Stanley Cup.

The place Are They Now? 2021 Montreal Canadiens

Nonetheless with the Canadiens

• Nick Suzuki

• Cole Caufield

• Josh Anderson

• Brendan Gallagher

• Joel Armia

• Jake Evans

After showing within the Stanley Cup Remaining, Suzuki was promoted to captain of the Canadiens and have become a 30-goal scorer. Caufield continues to attain over 20 objectives a season, whereas Anderson simply had one of many worst seasons of his profession with simply 20 factors.

Gallagher is now the longest-tenured skater within the Montreal room, approaching 800 video games, and Armia scored a career-high 17 objectives in 2023-24. Evans stays with the membership, and had his finest season following the run to the Remaining.

Nonetheless within the NHL

• Corey Perry (Edmonton)

• Jesperi Kotkaniemi (Carolina)

• Jeff Petry (Detroit)

• Erik Gustafsson (Detroit)

• Brett Kulak (Edmonton)

• Jake Allen (New Jersey)

• Tyler Toffoli (San Jose Sharks)

• Joel Edmundson (Los Angeles Kings)

• Ben Chiarot (Detroit Purple Wings)

• Phillip Danault (Los Angeles Kings)

• Alexander Romanov (New York Islanders)

• Artturi Lehkonen (Colorado Avalanche)

• Jonathon Merrill (Minnesota Wild)

• Tomas Tatar (New Jersey Devils)

Instantly following the loss in Recreation 5 of the Stanley Cup Remaining, the Canadiens lineup started to separate. Tatar, Merrill, Danault, Gustafsson, and Perry left in free company, whereas Kotkaniemi departed to the Carolina Hurricanes through a proposal sheet.

Throughout the next season, 2021-22, the dismantling continued with a slew of trades, together with Toffoli (February), Kulak (March), Lehkonen (March), and Chiarot (March). Within the offseason, the Canadiens traded Romanov to the New York Islanders.

Petry was the subsequent to depart through commerce (July 2022), adopted by Edmundson (July 2023), and final however not least, Allen (March 2024). Many of those gamers have performed for a number of golf equipment since departing Montreal, however nobody has gone on to win the Stanley Cup.

Apparently, a number of gamers from the 2020-21 membership at the moment are teammates in new cities, together with Perry and Kulak, who simply performed within the 2024 Remaining with the Oilers.

Hockey Corridor of Fame

Weber was the captain of the 2021 Canadiens, who misplaced within the Stanley Cup Remaining for the second time in his profession following a 2016 defeat with the Nashville Predators.

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As of September 2024, Weber is the one participant from that 12 months’s crew inducted into the Hockey Corridor of Fame.

Carey Value and probably Eric Staal and Perry will finally be a part of him in Toronto, however for now, Weber joins an extended checklist of former Canadiens captains within the Corridor of Fame.

Retired

• Carey Value*

• Paul Byron

• Eric Staal

Value is unofficially retired. He can’t come again from a lower-body damage, and his solely look within the Stanley Cup Remaining in 2021 was his final hurrah.

Because the winningest netminder in Canadiens historical past, it is solely a matter of time earlier than his No. 31 goes to the rafters on the Bell Centre and he enters the Corridor of Fame as a first-ballot candidate.

Staal just lately retired after 18 seasons, having performed within the 2023 Remaining with the Florida Panthers. In the meantime, Byron missed many of the season after the Cup run, enjoying in simply 27 video games in 2021-22, formally retiring in September 2023 and becoming a member of the Canadiens’ teaching workers.

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