Montreal Canadiens will select 5th overall at the 2024 NHL entry draft.
Canadiens General Manager Kent Hughes suggest Habs plan to select a forward at the 2024 entry draft with the 5th overall selection.
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My choice is Berkley Catton
If Lindstrom and Demidov are not available, i choose Catton.
I’d take iginla over catton
“All things being equal” only means if two guys evaluate the same on their board, they’ll take the forward. If Macklin, Demidov and Lindstrom are all gone in the first four picks, that will mean a VERY good defenceman is still there. At that point there may not be another forward who evaluates the same for them as that defenceman, which makes sense based on current rankings. In that case, maybe they just trade back, but hard to bet on the idea that Mtl has, say, Iginla as high on their board as, say, Levshunov or Dickinson. I think everything is easy if Lindstrom or Demidov are still there. If they aren’t, i think it’s all very much up in the air.
So the good news, is the Habs at the 5th spot, will get either Lindstrom, Demidov, Catton, or Iginla. Any of these guys would be awesome. We basically get the leftover of the top 4, lol. Honestly, picking 2nd to 4th would be a bit of a dilemma, like, who do you pick between Demidov and Lindstrom if they are both available? I know the Hawks are gonna have a serious dilemma between them 2. They could a crazy good winger in Demidov to play alongside Bedard, but also, they could get their 2nd line center in Lindstrom, 6'4" powerforward….
For Anahein, my guess is they'll take Levshunov, 6'2" right dman, replacing Drysdale, top pair dman potential.
Columbus, might take Silayev? Dickinson ? Or whoever is left between Demidov/Lindstrom?
Hard to say, but the Habs don't have as much of a dilemma at 5, they pick their top guy who's left on the board. But honestly, for me in order its Demidov/Lindstrom 50/50, then Iginla, then Catton or Eiserman
COLE EISERMAN or ZAYNE PAREKH
How can we pass on EISERMAN
Few years at BU to work on his all around game!
Imagine fully grown 6’1 205-210lbs Eiserman ripping pucks 🎉
The others players we can trade for with our surplus
And Parekh 🤯
Lindstrom won't be available in the fifth pick.
Either Eiserman or Iginla for me. Lindstrom's injury history scares me and the Habs don't need another player with that history, they have enough already. I like Iginla. The apple usually doesn't fall far from the tree and he'd develop into a leader on this team.
im sorry NO they wont ,you had a bad take .
what he said was he was unwilling to speak of the drop off off talent after the 2 fw and 5 d .
its ok because of basu eveybody is having a bad take
it is a d heavy draft dude,youre asking them to draft less talented players .give your head a shake
If that’s the case, trade up to 2 and get Demidov, please 🙏
lemme guess, skipping the BPA again like last year? What a plan Kent. Stop drafting by position , it doesn't work or do you want another Kotkaniemi instead of Hughes, Tkachuk? Buttheads
Demidov/Lindstrom or Parekh
Demidov on Bedard's wing is scary
Why didn't the Habs pick a forward LAST YEAR as there was Michkov, Benson, Leonard available? Last year was a year stacked with quality forwards and they picked Reinbacker (ranked 15th). This year is now or never to pick a quality forward and there are only d-Men available. They will have to pick the 10th ranked player to have a forward as Demidov and Linstrom will be long gone. The Habs whole scouting should be fired. It is impossible to fail as much even if you planned it. The Habs should hand a copie of the consolidated ranking list to the Habs office receptionist and have her pick the players, the team will be much better. It is non stop errors KK style.
Hoping for HABS to be picking many forwards in the first 5 rounds, enough defenseman in our system. By the way, in the past 3-4 years, the same teams have been picking in the top 10, such as Montreal/Columbus/Anaheim/San Jose/Chicago
Habs take Lindstrom and trade 24 pick and one of are defenseman prospects for the 10th pick and take Iginla
If Demidov and Lindstrom are both gone, Habs need to at least consider Parekh at 5. They don't have to take him but at least consider him.
Upgrade the Habs top 6 through trade and draft picks… The 8$ mill dollar winger who got 27 goals … does not enter the crease.. loses board battles… but the league thinks he is a superstar. Trade Caufeild + Baron to Ottawa , for B. Tkuchuck and swap 5th and 7th picks.
Did you watch the U18? Cause he did not look impressive. Many 2025/2026 were better than him. No even talking about McKenna and Martone, Malcolm Spence and Jett Luchanko looked better than him. He under-performed and most of the time tried to do too much.
We're not getting Lindstrom… He won't be there.
The funny thing is there is so much depth on defence in this year's draft!!
If no superstar is a lock at 5th trade it to the Flames…9th is still a great pick.
Not falling was Great
I think we trade down to 7th or 8th and pick Tij Iginla and get an early 2nd rounder or an asset. Dont be surprised if the take Cole Eiserman
The Habs should have grabbed Michkov last year, there's so many good D-man this year.
Iginla
Habs couldn’t drafted michkov last year with all these defensive prospects :/
Kent needs to go ALL IN and trade pick 24, our two 1st rounders next year and one of our D prospects for another top 10 pick this year. Draft Lindstrom and either Iginla/Eiserman, BOOM!
Take Lindstom at 5, trade the WPG 1st this year (which I believe is 27th right now, could possibly go as high as 25th provided Dallas gets knocked out in the 2nd round), Calgary 1st next year, and maybe one of the 2025 2nds to move up and take Iginla, Catton or Eiserman. Nevermind the D, you have enough, draft D in the 2nd round, load up on high end forward picks
I'd want Lindstrom…or…Eiserman…or Catton….or Iginla .. All I want …is a SNIPER .. !!! PLEASE..!!! 😅😅😅
Lindstrom, but I think Blue Jackets will steal him, as Ducks do need some D
Grant McCagg has Beckett Sennecke @ 5
And he’s been pretty accurate over the years.
Lots of options. Wondering Drew and habs fans if you would trade pick 5 for Kent Johnson in clbs?
For fracks sake….Pick a Non European like Igilna, but chances are the smarter teams will pick him ahead of the Habs leaving another Euro….Gad,Slavkisky,Richenbacker, Galheniac, and the rest of the Euros,,get us a Western Canadian
Yea pick another Rickenbacker you lovers.
Nah they'll draft a goalie again
Benson and leonard had sort of down years after being drsfted. Meanshile reinbacher has the potential to be that really good stay at home dman that was already playing with pros. Lindstrom, eiserman or catton will be great picks. Sorry to say but habs are to 2 to 3 years from contending for the playoffs when the d core had matured and jacob fowler is ready. Habs may be close to wild card next year tho. But the draft scouting is 1000% better than before cause almost every 1st round pick was a bust excluding price and i think pacioretty lol
Could we trade reinbacher and harris to utah for 6th pk? Arizona apparently wanted reinbacher last draft. Habs could possibly draft lindstrom and iginla . if that came to fruition? Wow!
Fun and games! Can the Habs find a big physical forward with great skating, IQ, & stick skills? Do Lindstrom and Sennecke fit that profile? Otherwise take B. Catton for his elite skill set. That huge Russian defenseman might be a choice (Hedman 2.0?) if some trades are online to move a bunch of our D. Chose any from: Savard, Kovacevic, Harris, Struble, Trudeau, Norlander for an under 25 scorer in the league now…go get Shane Wright. He had a great development year, now everyone can see that he will be rock'n in 2-3 years.
Eiserman is the player the Habs should pick.