Welcome to Catching The Torch, where we keep an eye on the Montreal Canadiens’ North American prospects and how their development is faring week by week. This time around, I wanted to provide a broader update on the general level of the prospects in the Habs’ pool that play on this side of the pond, and highlight the most promising among them. This pyramid will exclude prospects currently playing in the AHL, NHL, and obviously any overseas Habs draftees.
Rather than count down and rank these prospects from one to 21, which leads to confusion in instances where players four through 11 are more or less interchangeable, I thought it best to make a tiered prospect pyramid to display them in a way that better encompasses their ranks within the number of possible outcomes for any given prospect, and how similarly they project.