- Canadiens sign defenseman Maksymilian Szuber to a one-year, two-way contract
- The 23-year-old came to Montreal from Utah in June in the Joshua Roy trade
- Read below for the contract terms and where Szuber fits on the Habs depth chart
Montreal has its half of the Joshua Roy trade under contract.
Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced Monday that the club agreed to terms with defenseman Maksymilian Szuber on a one-year, two-way contract for 2026-27.
PuckPedia posted the terms a couple of hours later: an $850,000 NHL salary, $135,000 in the AHL, and $175,000 guaranteed no matter where Szuber spends the season.
That is almost exactly what Utah handed Roy. The Mammoth signed the 22-year-old forward to a one-year, two-way deal at $850,000 within hours of the June swap, so a depth-for-depth trade now reads the same on both sides.
Szuber spent all of last season with the Tucson Roadrunners and put up 11 goals and 27 points in 65 games. He led Tucson’s defensemen in goals and finished third among them in scoring.
The Coyotes drafted the Opole, Poland native 163rd overall in 2022. He has one NHL game to his name, a single appearance with Arizona in 2023-24, plus exactly 200 AHL games in Tucson that produced 25 goals and 87 points.
Before he came over to North America, the 6-foot-3 blueliner won a Deutsche Eishockey Liga championship with Munich in 2022-23 and took silver with Germany at the 2023 World Championship.
Utah’s blue line simply got too crowded. Dmitri Simashev and Maveric Lamoureux passed Szuber on the depth chart, and the Mammoth turned him into a forward they had room for.
A two-way deal points Szuber toward the Laval Rocket to open the year, with a call-up route if Montreal’s group thins out.
Three restricted free agents are still sitting on Hughes’ desk. Zack Bolduc and Arber Xhekaj both played regular roles on the team that reached the Eastern Conference Final last spring, and Sasha Pastujov arrived from Anaheim last week in the Sean Farrell trade.
Bolduc and Xhekaj are the two that decide what Montreal’s opening-night roster looks like. Szuber was the easy one to check off.
