The Montreal Canadiens announced the identity of the players invited to their training camp on Tuesday evening.
La Sainte-Flanelle handed out 70 invitations for the event which will begin on Wednesday at the Brossard Sports Complex. The athletes will begin this first stage of the 2021-2022 season with physical evaluations and medical examinations.
There will therefore be 40 attackers, 23 defenders and seven goalkeepers during the first stages of the CH training camp.
Note that 17 players participating in the Montreal organization’s rookie camp received an invitation to the big camp. This is particularly the case of striker Jesse Ylönen, whose choice not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine has caused much ink to flow recently.
Among the first-year players, we also find Quebecers Cédric Desruisseaux, Justin Ducharme, Alexis Gravel, Rafaël Harvey-Pinard, Joshua Roy and Xavier Simoneau.
CH recruits pass their last test
The Montreal Canadiens rookies won their last preseason game Tuesday at the Bell Sports Complex by a score of 5 to 3, against a group of star players from the U Sports circuit.
The members of the Montreal organization had started the game on the wrong foot, allowing the first goal, but Joshua Roy allowed the two teams to retreat to the locker room with a tie of 1 to 1.
The Canadiens’ hopes were much more convincing in the second period. Mika Cyr first gave the lead to his own, before Brenden Sirizzotti doubled the lead. Isiah Campbell also shook the ropes during this engagement.
Representatives of the Canadian university circuit were able to close the gap to two goals before the end of the second period, then to a net in the third period, but defenseman Kaiden Guhle made the light sparkle, in an empty net at the end. of match, to seal the outcome of the match, in favor of the members of the organization of the Belle Province.
It was the first victory in three games for the representatives of the Canadiens.
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