OK Guys, it’s time to take a look at the recent news surrounding the Montréal Canadiens. Apparently, according to Arpon Basu and more.. Kent Hughes has been very aggressive over the past several weeks trying to move up at the draft. Currently they own the 5th overall pick, but with some magic.. Hughes would happily move up the 2nd overall pick, which is property of the Anaheim Ducks, or even the 4th overall pick (San Jose Sharks.)
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for the 2nd overall i'd offer the 5th, Anderson and either Harris, Barron or Hutson to Anaheim. Maybe a bit of salary retention on Anderson's deal
IMO the draft is too deep to go up only one spot. I think the price you would have to pay just to go up one spot wouldn’t be worth it. I would rather him go all in and try to get that second depending on who they would have to give up.
No! Pay nothing!! This is only so Hughes doesnt look bad passing on Michkov
But why? Anyone on the top 5 is great, don't need to move up.
Stand pat
The Canadiens are doing "serious due diligence" on Smith, Michkov & Benson. If Michkov is available, they would be "very interested" as per Incarcetered bob ( same guy who predicted that MSL was gonna be the future coach of the Habs)
🐶 dog days of summer a few days after the cup. Kind of a non story of course all teams are looking to move up
Our HABS management team are very clever and astute.
This 'rumor' might be a ruse in order to distract from their actual desired pick.
There's no way that Gorton & Hughes would trade the 'house' in order to move up a spot or two IMO.
I'd target 5th overall, seriously. You can pick the best player available when it's your turn. If you're going to give up assets, get PL Dubois in a trade.
It just doesn’t make sense to me unless Montreal is certain SJ is going to pick their guy. I hope SJ doesn’t trade away their pick, but if they can get the 5th and 31st picks back they’d have to take it.
SJ could end up with 4 picks in the top 40 of a stacked draft (5, 26, 31, 36). They definitely need the prospects. But, why would MTL do that to only move 1-spot??
I am concerned with who they are going to go with at 5, if they dont trade up. One day i think if they get Michkov, im stringing up! lol, and other days, im like well, Michkov is fuckin REALLY good! Probably 2nd best in the draft!!! lol. I think we will end up with either Michkov, or Leonard, that's my top 2 guesses. not who I want to be picked necessarily, but who i think we are gonna get. If i could choose, obviously, it'd be Bedard, then MIchkov, ( If he could play right away, but he cant, so not michkov!!!), lol, #1 Bedard, #2 Fantilli, #3 Carlsson, #4 Smith, #5 Ryan Leonard/Matvei Michkov, one of them, I HOPE!!! If they do what Craig Button says, and choose a D man, i am really going to put a hit out on Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton!! Like i will lose my shit, i would DEFINITELY end up MINUS one TV!! After putting my fist thru it!!! like that is 1,000,000% what will happen! Maybe i should start saving up for another TV now! lol.
Jeez by's…. All the Habs had to do was lose a few more games and we wouldn't be talking about this… Yeesh!!!
Go for it, move up and would love to have Fantilli. If that means shipping off what's his face that was drafted 1st overall last year then even better
If there’s anything we learned from Kent, I think it’s that he will get who he wants. Slaf, dach…
Just because he wants to move up doesn’t mean he won’t move back down. Get the 2nd, flip it to CBJ or SJ draft the guy Kent wants
Everyone is over thinking this. Top 5 just pick whos left at #5. If they wanna play around then do it with 31st and 37th picks.
This genuinely made me laugh. God do i hope the habs trade up to 4 just to not take michkov, would make my day 😂
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You have got to be from Newfoundland
I would trade 5th overall+31st way before including Razor Ramon😅
Getting Smith makes me a Happy Camper. but trading up for Fantilli! WOW, not since Sam Pollock have I heard this kinda of agressive trade talks… I like it! R.
Great video junkie, sounds familiar were all talking on this in our podcast lol ,I did three videos last night and I discussed this as well. Good job bro ,I think Hugh's and Gorton are up to something something for sure .
Hughes could be all in on Michkov and but thinks Michkov goes before 5th. We don't know so speculating that he doesn't want Michkov has no merit.
To MTL: 2nd overall pick
To ANA: 5th overall, Jordan Harris and 31st (Florida)
Mtls 5th
Flo's 1st pick
Josh anderson
Farewell maybe???
For ducks 2 pick?
Or 4th?
Also Columbus 3rd is up for grabs they offered mtl 3rd for the 5th and dach… Remove dach add anderson and ferewell or something
The bottom line Dach is staying and not going anywhere sorry
30 other teams also WANT to move up.
Whether or not SJ would be willing to swap with MTL would be strongly based on who’s still available after the first three are off the board. If The Sharks still really like two guys when it’s time to pick 4th, they might swap to 5 with Montreal. It’s entirely possible.
But to get the 2nd overall away from Anaheim… that’s gonna take a package you might not be willing to part with. Anaheim knows how good Adam Fantilli is. They’re not gonna do The Habs any favours.
Edit: Every year we hear about how teams wanna move up, especially into the top 5. But the reality is it seldom happens.
Wait… can’t Kent Hughes just wait and see who the sharks take at 4th overall and then trade for it if it’s will
Smith instead of guessing nobody takes mitchkov? Also, the 5th and Harris for the 4th sounds good for both sides or am I wrong?
As a Sens fan, I hope the Habs draft Michkov, and then he just stays in Russia and never plays one game for them lol
Not a Habs fan, no idea how I stumbled on this video, but my unbiased opinion is the 31st pick wouldn’t be enough unless there’s 5 guys that San Jose loves. I think that’s a big if because it’s been widely reported teams are split on Michkov. Some would run to the podium to take him at 4 or 5, some have too many concerns. If San Jose, for whatever reason, isn’t high on him, it would take a ton to have them give up Will Smith. He’s probably the only legit number 1 centre prospect left at that point and every team wants that as one of the very first pieces when rebuilding. How far they’re moving down is irrelevant because it really feels like it’s a drop of a whole tier going from Smith to someone like Dvorsky or Reinbacher.
I'm a Habs fan. I really think with all the talk on how great all of the top 5 are this year. Soooo
To MTL 2nd overall.
To ANA 5th, 31st, Gallagher.
Giving the 31st for moving 1 spot is too high a price