Final Roster Announcements Due Today - Who Made Your Team?

[RGM81]

Teams have until 5pm EDT tonight to submit their 23-man rosters.

Habs are getting close to having their final roster, sending five guys to Laval this morning. Once practice is done, there will be a couple more. Due to injuries they need some warm bodies out there.

All making the opening night roster: Juraj Slafkovsky, Kaiden Guhle, Jordan Harris and the X-man, Arber Xhekaj.

Going to be some pretty good Canadiens YG's in Series 2/Extended this season.

Who made your team's roster that has you excited?

[manthis]

who does your team
have for
goalies this year??

price is not playing is he??

[RGM81]

@manthis It's going to be Jake Allen & Samuel Montembeault between the pipes.

[mooneyes]

Maybe Saku Maenalanen, who is 28 yrs old. I looked up his cards and he has one, a Compendium RC from 2018 after playing 30 games for Carolina.
Maybe that will be his one and only rc?

[troy95]

That's probably the case.
However...

Pavel Francouz got a YG in 2020-21 after having a rookie compendium card in 2018-19. He played 36 games in-between 2018-19 and 2019-20 so he really shouldn't have been eligible for one in 2020-21.

[30ranfordfan]

Maybe Saku Maenalanen, who is 28 yrs old. I looked up his cards and he has one, a Compendium RC from 2018 after playing 30 games for Carolina.
Maybe that will be his one and only rc?

That's probably the case.
However...

Pavel Francouz got a YG in 2020-21 after having a rookie compendium card in 2018-19. He played 36 games in-between 2018-19 and 2019-20 so he really shouldn't have been eligible for one in 2020-21.

Yeah, it's hard to say. Compendium was a great product. I really liked it. There's a bunch of players (the whole list is posted somewhere on this site..... but I'd have to dig around for it) whose only card that season was in Compendium. The nature of the set let them ensure EVERYONE got a card that year.

The traditional definition of a true rookie card is that it's a base card, and for Compendium the base cards were digital only.... so what is the rookie card? (for me, I just substituted the "base" for "most common parallel").

So, call a 2018-19 Compendium Rookie a RC or don't (a matter of opinion, I guess?) but what makes Francouz so much more bizarre is that they made him a base card in 2020-21 OPC.... before making him a rookie in most their other sets that year. It's like the product team knew he already had a rookie card so they didn't give him that treatment - and then someone said "nope, make him a rookie" and they changed gears with him in 2020, after one release.

[30ranfordfan]

For the Oilers: Brad Malone, Dylan Holloway, and Philip Broberg made the initial roster (they claimed the three spots that IMO were open to be claimed).

It seems as though Malone and Broberg made it for cap reasons, and will be swapped for Devin Shore & Markus Niemelainen after the first game.

I think an early season trade happens for Edmonton, as their roster is only 21 players.

[Marcb105]

I am very hopeful that Elmer Soderblom, the towering behemoth, will stick in Detroit for more than just a few early games.
He is fascinating to watch and will become a fan favorite.