2025-26 Depth Assessment: Right Wingers
The Habs have some impactful right-shot wingers on their roster heading into next season. But from an organizational depth perspective, it’s one of their weaker spots.
The Habs have some impactful right-shot wingers on their roster heading into next season. But from an organizational depth perspective, it’s one of their weaker spots.
After an impressive 2023-24 campaign, Cole Caufield took another small step forward last season. Will that upward trajectory continue for another year?
The 2025 World Junior Summer Showcase recently came to an end. Normally, the Habs don't have many prospects in this event but they had four this time around with most of them playing prominent roles.
The 2026 Winter Olympics will feature NHL players for the first time since 2014 when the tournament gets underway in February. Countries are hosting orientation camps this summer in preparation for the event and three Habs will be taking part in Canada's camp.
The centre position is something the Habs have been trying to shore up for basically multiple general managers now. However, while they still need some upgrades, the organizational depth is starting to come around.
While it took a little longer than expected, the Habs reached a contract agreement with their final restricted free agent, announcing on Monday that they've re-signed defenceman Jayden Struble to a two-year contract that carries a cap hit of $1.4125 million.
Going back to after he was just drafted in 2023, there was some thought that Bogdan Konyushkov could be a late-season addition in Montreal in 2025-26. Now with a KHL extension in place, that option is no longer on the table and the Habs should be looking for extra right-shot depth on the back end.
We’ve seen the Habs already make one move this summer to add to their stockpile on the left wing but how do they stack up at that position across the organization? That position is up next in our assessment.
As soon as the Habs acquired Noah Dobson back on draft day, speculation about Mike Matheson’s future with the team started up with the thought that they need to make a move quickly. That’s not really the case.
The Habs have only made a couple of moves of note this offseason but both have involved right-shot defencemen. Following those moves, how does the team shape up at that spot?