The Montreal Canadiens announced their 2024-25 lineup. Here's a look at the team's demographics.
Now that the Montreal Canadiens have finalized their roster for the season opener, the breakdown of nationalities is easier to discuss. Today, we will look at the team's demographics and see who makes up what percentage of the pie chart.
Slovakia - One player (3.8%)
- Juraj Slafkovsky (20) - Kosice, Slovakia
Sweden - One player (3.8%)
- Emil Heineman (22) - Leksand, Sweden
Finland - Three players (11.5%)
- Joel Armia (31) - Pori, Finland
- Oliver Kapanen* (21) - Timra, Sweden
- Patrik Laine (26) - Tampere, Finland
United States - Five players (19.2%)
- Cayden Primeau (25) - Farmington Hill, MI
- Cole Caufield (23) - Stevens Point, WI
- Christian Dvorak (28) - Palos, IL
- Lane Hutson (20) - Holland, MI
- Jayden Struble (23) - Cumberland, RI
Canada - 16 players (61.5%)
- Josh Anderson (30) - Burlington, ON
- Alex Barré-Boulet (27) - Montmagny, QC
- Justin Barron (22) - Halifax, NS
- Kirby Dach (23) - Fort Saskatchewan, AB
- Jake Evans (28) - Toronto, ON
- Brendan Gallagher (32) - Edmonton, AB
- Kaiden Guhle (22) - Edmonton, AB
- Rafaël Harvey-Pinard (25) - Saguenay, QC
- Mike Matheson (30) - Pointe-Claire, QC
- Alex Newhook (23) - St. Johns, NL
- Michael Pezzetta (26) - Toronto, ON
- David Savard (33) - St. Hyacinthe, QC
- Nick Suzuki (25) - London, ON
- Arber Xhekaj (23) - Hamilton, ON
- Sam Montembeault (27) - Bécancour, QC
- Carey Price (37) - Anahim Lake, BC
Interestingly, the percentage of Canadians (61.5%) is the lowest since the 2020-21 season, when the number dipped to 59.4% despite having 19 players from the country in the lineup.
As a team with a deep history of outstanding Canadian-born skaters, some of the best to ever play in the NHL, the franchise maintains a status quo regarding Canadian talent in the lineup.
After years of seeing a combination of nationalities eat up half of the pie chart, with Canadian-born skaters dropping to a salary cap era low of 42.9% in 2011-12, the organization has stayed above 50% since the 2013-14 season.
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