Habs pre season report 2014-09-11 Its been one year since stephane boudreau was name general manager . Since then boudreau hired patrick roy as coach , traded the aging core group of the team , drafted decent prospects . The habs are on the right path . Now heres what to expect from the habs in 2014-2015 . the forwards the canadiens will be counting on four solid lines this year all their forwards could play in the top six on every team in this league . Much of the offence should be coming from guys like landesgog , statsny , turris , parenteau , gallager smith and shaw . we also expect young players like huberdeau and chiasson to score some important goals . defence the defence in 2013 -2014 was the team weakness gm boudreau did adress the problem by signing free agent alex edler and mike weaver and traded for alex goligoski , cody franson and stuart wich give the habs a solid top six and in case of injury the habs will count on simon despres and franky bouillon . goalie after trading ryan miller last trade deadline the habs were left with only karri ramo in their depht chart in the goalie position , again boudreau fixed the problem by signing free agents craig anderson and nicklas backstrom also trading for prospect zach fucale . new captain wit h kopitar traded last season the habs were left without a captain today the canadiens are proud to name gabriel landesgog their new captain and also named paul statsny and brendan gallager assistant . Projected lineup for 2014-2015 landesgog - statsny - parenteau shaw - turris - smith mcguinn - eller - gallager huberdeau- roy - chiasson xtra carter , mcgrattan johnson - goligoski edler - weaver franson- stuart xtra despres , bouillon anderson backstrom ramo
