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Who do the Habs take in the 2019 draft?


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Yea, seems like a reach on the Struble pick, don't know the reason for american high school players. 

 

No reason to trade back ti get another pick in the 120's 

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26 minutes ago, Chris said:

Yea, seems like a reach on the Struble pick, don't know the reason for american high school players. 

 

No reason to trade back ti get another pick in the 120's 

 

Part of it is they probably believe in his upside (he seems to be a high risk-high reward type of player) and part of the reason for drafting USHS players is the extended timeline.  If they draft all CHL guys, they'll run into a wall when they need to sign them all due to the 50-contract limit.  This probably won't be the only time they go to this route for this reason.

 

I also wouldn't be surprised if they trade out of one of their picks at some point today to give them extra ammunition for next year when they're hosting it.

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1 hour ago, BCHabnut said:

Idiots on sportsnet don't even tell us what the trade was. Inferior to tsn.

Is the NHL Network, which sucks

And as the draft goes on they get worse and start ignoring picks and ramble on about BS.

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28 minutes ago, dlbalr said:

 

Didnt bother Nilan any.

He is off to Primeau's old school Northeastern, maybe will partner up with Jordan Harris, just both are LH d-men.

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I assume there wasn't anyone that really stood out for them when they picked at 50 so they decided to trade down. One thing about Struble is that he is one of the youngest guys in the draft, doesn't turn 18 until August, still early in his development but all scouting reports seem to agree that he is an excellent skater and plays with an edge. 

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13 minutes ago, Trizzak said:

What a weird draft from Bergevin and co.

 

Based on the picks or the fact they're swapping down and/or out?  (They did a lot of these pick swaps last year so that part doesn't surprise me.)

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