82 players from the QMJHL among NHL opening day rosters

Boucherville, Que. – The National Hockey League (NHL) revealed the rosters of its 31 franchises prior to yesterday’s opening games. Among them, you can find 82 players who made their way through the QMJHL before playing in the world’s greatest hockey league.

Only the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers have no QMJHL alumni among their lineups heading into the 2018-19 season.

On the flip side, the Tampa Bay Lightning has an impressive total of 10 former QMJHL players within its core, the highest total among a single NHL squad.

At age 19, Drummondville Voltigeurs forward Maxime Comtois is currently the youngest QMJHL player currently playing in the NHL. While we definitely wish him a prolific career at the next level, it is still a possibility that the Longueuil, Quebec native rejoins his Drummondville teammates at some point this season since he’s still too young to play in the American Hockey League.

Here is a list of the QMJHL alumni currently in the NHL:

ANAHEIM
Maxime Comtois

ARIZONA
Laurent Dauphin
Jason Demers
Conor Garland**

BOSTON
Patrice Bergeron
Jaroslav Halak
David Krejci
Brad Marchand

BUFFALO
Nathan Beaulieu
Jason Pominville
Marco Scandella

CALGARY
Michael Frolik

CAROLINA
Valentin Zykov

CHICAGO
Corey Crawford**

COLORADO
Mark Barberio
Gabriel Bourque
Samuel Girard
Nathan MacKinnon
Sven Andrighetto**

COLUMBUS
Pierre-Luc Dubois
Anthony Duclair
David Savard
Lukas Sedlak

DALLAS
Alexander Radulov

DETROIT
Jonathan Bernier
Martin Frk
Anthony Mantha
Evgeny Svechnikov

EDMONTON

FLORIDA
Mike Hoffman
Jonathan Huberdeau
Roberto Luongo
MacKenzie Weegar
Keith Yandle

LOS ANGELES

MINNESOTA
Charlie Coyle

MONTREAL
Paul Byron
Phillip Danault
Jonathan Drouin
Charles Hudon
Xavier Ouellet
Nicolas Delauriers**

NASHVILLE
Frédérick Gaudreau

NEW JERSEY
Jean-Sébastien Dea
Nico Hischier

NEW YORK (ISLANDERS)
Anthony Beauvillier

NEW YORK (RANGERS)

OTTAWA
Thomas Chabot
Jean-Gabriel Pageau**

PHILADELPHIA
Sean Couturier
Claude Giroux
Andrew MacDonald
Jakub Voracek
Pascal Laberge**
Samuel Morin**

PITTSBURGH
Derick Brassard
Sidney Crosby
Kris Letang
Daniel Sprong

SAN JOSE
Timo Meier
Marc-Édouard Vlasic

ST. LOUIS
Jake Allen
Ivan Barbashev
Samuel Blais
David Perron

TAMPA BAY
Louis Domingue
Adam Erne
Yanni Gourde
Mathieu Joseph
Nikita Kucherov
Danick Martel
Ondrej Palat
Cédric Paquette
Michael Bournival**
Daniel Walcott**

TORONTO
Frédérick Gauthier

VANCOUVER
Yan Pavel Laplante**
Antoine Roussel**

VEGAS
William Carrier
Marc-André Fleury
Jonathan Audy-Marchessault

WASHINGTON
Dmitrij Jaskin

WINNIPEG
Nikolaj Ehlers
Dmitry Kulikov
Mathieu Perreault

**Indicates a player that is currently listed as injured.