While we can piece together most of the likely opening night roster for the Habs already, there are a few potential battles for spots at each position as training camp gets underway later this week.

With head coach Michel Therrien announcing on Wednesday that it will be the coaching staff and management that decide on the captaincy, it’s time to evaluate the potential options to succeed Brian Gionta.

For those born in the mid-to-late 1980’s, watching the Montreal Canadiens play hockey wasn’t all it was hyped up to be compared to the ‘back in my day’ stories our older relatives had.

Last offseason, the Habs felt that they needed to add a tough guy to help take some of the fighting pressure off of the likes of Brandon Prust and Travis Moen, so they acquired George Parros from Florida.

A new addition to the Montreal’s blueline during the offseason, Tom Gilbert was brought in to offset the Josh Gorges trade even though the two stylistically are very different players.

With talk now shifting to who should be the next captain of the Canadiens, we thought it would be a good time to reflect for a moment on the outgoing one.

As one of the young building blocks of the Montreal Canadiens, Brendan Gallagher didn’t scale back the aggressiveness during the 2013-2014 campaign as the little pitbull continued to make a name for himself.

Michel Therrien certainly leaned on Tomas Plekanec in a more defensive role this past season and his personal statistics showed it.

There were some nervous moments but the Habs and P.K. Subban were able to put pen to paper on an eight year, $72 million deal over the weekend.