Habs announce two season-ending injuries on Monday.

To say that the Montreal Canadiens have been decimated by injuries this season would be something of an understatement, but in spite of that the Canadiens had even more bad news to share on Monday regarding a pair of players.

The first medical update from the Habs was regarding forward Alex Belzile, who according to the Canadiens suffered a leg fracture during the team's matchup against the Carolina Hurricanes over the weekend. The injury will keep Belzile out of the lineup for what remains of the regular season but there was no mention of any surgery in Belzile's future.

The other update was on the health of veteran forward Sean Monahan. The Habs confirmed that Monahan has undergone surgery on his groin, and added that the procedure will end Monahan's season as well.

While these are both significant losses for the Canadiens, the reality is that the team is well out of the playoff picture. With this in mind, it makes sense that the Canadiens are shutting down their players in the hopes of getting them healthy in time for next season.

As Eric Engels points out, the list of season-ending injuries for the Canadiens has become a little absurd. On top of today;'s announcement, the Canadiens have already lost David Savard, Kaiden Guhle, Arber Xhekaj, Cole Caufield, Juraj Slafkovsky, Josh Anderson and Christian Dvorak to season-ending injuries.