The Montreal Canadiens have just made a big late-night announcement, as the organization invites no less than 72 players to its training camp.

This is an absolutely staggering total, and it is clear that it might attract some criticism, as there will be a crowd at the CN Sports Complex in Brossard. Therefore, there have been no cuts between the rookie camp and the real Canadiens camp.

Forwards

Josh Anderson

Lias Andersson

Joel Armia

Owen Beck

Gabriel Bourque

Cole Caufield

Lucas Condotta

Kirby Dach

Jared Davidson

Isaac Dufort

Christian Dvorak

Jake Evans

Sean Farrell

Brendan Gallagher

Brandon Gignac

Cédrick Guindon

Rafaël Harvey-Pinard

Emil Heineman

Riley Kidney

Nathan Légaré

Philippe Maillet

Riley McKay

Filip Mesar

Sean Monahan

Jan Mysak

Alex Newhook

Jakov Novak

Tanner Pearson

Michael Pezzetta

Joshua Roy

Xavier Simoneau

Juraj Slafkovsky

Ty Smilanic

Mitchell Stephens

Nick Suzuki

Alex-Olivier Voyer

Florian Xhekaj

Nolan Yamenko

Jesse Ylonen

Defensemen

Justin Barron

Nicolas Beaudin

Tobie Bisson

Stanislav Demin

Olivier Galipeau

Kaiden Guhle

Jordan Harris

Brady Keeper

Johnathan Kovacevic

Noah Laaouan

Gustav Lindstrom

Logan Mailloux

Mike Matheson

Mattias Norlinder

Christopher Ortiz

John Parker-Jones

David Reinbacher

David Savard

Jayden Struble

Miguël Tourigny

William Trudeau

Chris Wideman

Arber Xhekaj

Goaltenders

Jake Allen

Jakub Dobes

Zachary Émond

Strauss Mann

Quentin Miller

Samuel Montembeault

Cayden Primeau

Jan Spunar

Joe Vrbetic