With the NHL and NHLPA reaching a tentative agreement on the return to play for the 2020-21 season, we turn our attention to the Montreal Canadiens and preview the next steps.

For starters, due to the pandemic and a closed border between Canada and the USA, the Canadiens will play in an all-Canadian division.  Rest assured Sports Betting Canada will have the latest forecast, and you can take advantage of the sports Interaction referral code.

2020-21 Realignment

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With the Canadiens in the North division, each team will play each other 9 or 10 times.  the season will consist of 56 games.  With the top 4 teams advancing in each division to the playoffs.  The first two rounds of the playoffs are within division.  That means a Canadian team will be guaranteed making it to the Final 4.  Just think, a Montreal vs Boston Stanley Cup Final is possible.

Key Dates

Training camp is set to begin January 3rd, 2021.  There won’t be any pre-season games,  The first regular-season game will take place January 13, 2021.  Regular season will end May 8.  And last playoffs date is scheduled for no later than July 15.

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Training camps, roster sizes

Each team will be allowed to invite 36 players to camp.  Rosters need to be trimmed to 23 players by January 13.  But teams will be able to carry a taxi squad from their AHL affiliate of 4-6 players.  Taxi squad players will still be waiver eligible.  In other words, they need to clear waivers to get called up, from the taxi squad.   Taxi squad players can practice with the NHL club, as well as travel with the club.  But they will be earning their AHL salary when not officially on the NHL roster.  As such, the players will not count against the salary Cap. The Canadiens will carry an extra goalie on their taxi squad.  Assuring Charlie Lindgren to fill that role provided he’s not claimed off waivers.  As the intent is to have Cayden Primeau get as many starts as possible with the Laval Rocket, as the AHL too is set t return in January.

With training camp set for 10 days duration, Head Coach Claude Julien will not have enough time to evaluate how all the off-season acquisitions will fit in with the team.  In total there will be five new faces on the club; Jake Allen (G), Joel Edmundson (D), Tyler Toffoli (F), Josh Anderson (F), and rookie defenceman Alexander Romanov.  And only one notable exit in Max Domi.

And all of this under the presumption that there will not be any Covid-19 positive tests, and that safety standards will be adhered to, and most of all, the provincial health authorities allows for camp, and the games to take place.

Otherwise, the NHL might need to move the Canadian division into a bubble.  Or last option, have the Canadian teams play in the US instead.