Rookie Roster Up for the Habs

I think the phrase that best sums up the rookie roster for the Montreal Canadiens is, "you haven't made it yet, boys." The rookie roster doesn't exactly dress 100% rookies, but they are all still young players and unless you've really earned your way onto the training camp roster, you're going to get an extra camp under your belt before its all said and done.

Names like PK Subban and Max Pacioretty would be locks in my head for missing out on rookie camp, but a little extra work never hurt anyone... or does it in hockey?  I think with a little extra jump in their step, these are the kind of guys that can finally make an impact with the Canadiens, especially in camp.

Forwards	Defense	Goalies
Tomas Plekanec	Andrei Markov	Carey Price
Scott Gomez	Roman Hamrlik	Alex Auld
Mike Cammalleri	Jaroslav Spacek
Brian Gionta	Alexandre Picard
Andrei Kostitsyn	Hal Gill
Benoit Pouliot	Josh Gorges
Dustin Boyd	Ryan O'Byrne
Jeff Halpern
Travis Moen
Max Lapierre
Tom Pyatt
Max Pacioretty	P.K. Subban	Robert Mayer
Lars Eller	Yannick Weber	Nicolas Champion
Ryan White	Kyle Klubertanz	Peter Delmas
Ben Maxwell	Brendon Nash
Alex Avtsin	Fredric St. Denis
Hunter Bishop	Sebastien Bisaillon
Andrew Conboy	Marc-Antione Desnoyers
Gabriel Dumont	Morgan Ellis
Andreas Engqvist	Joe Stejskal
Oliver Fortier	Jarred Tinordi
Louis Leblanc
Philippe Lefebvre
Dany Masse
Aaron Palushaj
Ian Schultz
Jonathan Brunelle
Brendan Gallagher
Dustin Walsh

It looks like this will be a very competitive camp, especially with new faces like Lars Eller and Aaron Palushaj joining the ranks.  A few first round picks in the mix will also do the team some wonders and maybe some extra training camp invites will come of this camp as well.  Louis Leblanc, Yannick Weber and Ryan White are also players that will get good looks in this camp and I expect them all to be in the main camp when it opens in a week.  Not sure about sleeper picks at this level beyond Subban, but you never know.