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The Montreal Canadiens have agreed to a two-year, one-way contract with defenseman Jayden Struble, the team announced on Monday morning. The two parties inked the deal, which pays Struble an average annual salary of $1.4125 million after he requested the negotiations go to arbitration. The 23-year-old defenseman has played 112 games with the Canadiens over the last two seasons…

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It’s time to begin Eyes On The Prize’s 16th annual Montreal Canadiens Top 25 Under 25! The series focuses on the top young talent in the organization, projecting their skills to identify who will compete (or not) for places on the NHL roster in the future, slotting them in among those who are already stars with the Canadiens. Any player born after September 15, 2000, taking us back as far as…

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All of the Montreal Canadiens players confidently stated at least year’s pre-season golf tournament that they were aiming to make the playoffs. It seemed like too big a dream for many people in the hockey world, and only sounded more implausible when the team’s inability to keep the puck out of its net resulted in an 8-13-3 start. But the Canadiens recovered to finish with a 40-31-11 mark…

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The excitement each year when we do this project is coming up with an order for the top players in the organization, with new additions and great seasons from others shifting how the relative value is viewed from summer to summer. But while we all fret over who to move into the top spots, voters also make their task of ranking a high number of players easier by shifting a few players to the lowest…

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Getting closer to the top players in the organization, we find a group that is neither on a track to play in the NHL nor appearing hopeless to do so. These prospects have all performed better than those we just discussed as Long Shots, or have at least established their style of play somewhat versus first-year eligible players who don’t have as much experience. Five of the eight players in…

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Not making it as high as the official Top 25 Under 25 but still some distance removed from being at the bottom of the prospect barrel we find the Near Misses. It’s a category that used to be made up of significantly flawed players who needed major breakouts to get on the prospect radar, but now is really just an extension of the main list of potential future NHLers. Every player profiled here has…

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