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Well that was uneventful….

I would not be surprised

Stand pat at 5th. Let's see if Chicago gets two in a row...

Any luck we move up and can draft a LD!! 😁

I can't watch it, too nerve racking, will check in later. Hoping for the best but dropping 1 spot to 6th has the highest odds. We will see.

Come on balls!!!! work your magic!!

Anderson's 3 years left doesn't make for a wise risk on a contending team. If it were 1 year, maybe, but the length and risk makes his only option a team like Montreal. Without sweeting the deal, even other rebuilding teams would stay away from him. He will be on the roster to start the season. His only chance of a trade is if his performance gets a lot better. This is also a case where it rests solely on his shoulders. MSL gave him way more chances than he deserved to be in productive positions, and he just didn't. I will give him credit, it wasn't from lack of effort.

I don't know who said he had no value (I know I didn't in the post you quoted). What is his standalone value? If it's a fourth-round pick, it's pretty inconsequential. On a playoff team, he's a 7/8 guy, that's not worth trading much of anything for. And for a rebuilding team, he's worth it as a depth piece but Winnipeg had no luck trading him which is how Montreal got him off waivers in the first place. Rebuilding teams will want a warm body for as cheap an acquisition cost as possible so while Kovacevic would indeed fit that bill, those teams won't offer much of anything for him. If they can't get him for dirt cheap, they'll just claim someone off waivers (like Anaheim claiming Gustav Lindstrom during the season). Suppose the Habs are in trade talks for an impact player and they're trying to find the missing piece to a package off. If Hughes offers up a fourth-round pick (or Kovacevic if that's his value) as that missing piece, it's probably not moving the needle. That's what I mean by close to throw-in value; he's not going to be the difference-maker to match up value in a bigger trade. He has some value, sure, but not enough to do anything of note which, as others have said, means it probably makes more sense to keep him at this point.

I've been ranting about this trade since the day it happened. Danault and Lehkonen should both be Habs right now in my eyes. They are both such great defensive players.

Scandella's a free agent this summer, not a year from now. That probably takes this one off the table.

some Lehkonen love 😍

Just based on St Louis' roster/cap structure, they have to still be in "try to win" mode ... wonder if they would take a risk on Anderson (3-yrs@$5.5M) bouncing back if the Habs took back Scandella (1-yr@$3.275M, 8th in TOI amongst Blues defencemen) ... Marco could be the 7D for next season and finish out his career "at home" ... if I recall he did play some RD, when necessary, in his short stint in with the Habs ... this would a pure "cap play" for 25/26 and 26/27; short-term pain for long-term gain ... but it would allow MSL to build legit trios instead of having to fit Anderson in with a duo on the 3rd/4th line.

This year (2024), I asked our panel of scouts for their Top 12 as I was inclined to probably go with just 12 names again, but if the polling results justified it, I was fully prepared to expand it to any number up to and including 16. I was quite surprised by the results. Shocked actually. In a draft where, pick by individual pick in the Top 12, there is very little consensus (a wide array of prospects got consideration at virtually every pick outside of Nos. 1 and 2; there is (at this moment in time) an almost unbelievable level of consensus on who are viewed by our scouting panel as the top 15 prospects in this draft. That is, only 17 prospects showed up in our Top 12 polling and — here’s the kicker — two of those 17 only got mentioned one time apiece. The other 15 were mentioned four or more times and seven of them were on all 10 (Top 12) ballots.

100% its not a huge value and Kovacevic is useful.

How bad is this?? I was looking ahead to the 2025 draft and they have Calgary with 4 x 1st round picks. According to this Calgary has Montreal's 1st round pick?? What sloppy, pathetic journalism. Do some homework!! 2025 NHL Mock Draft | NHL Draft Rounds - Lines.com

this post was funny, reminds me how I felt in the last few years 2017: Poehling #25 2018: KK #3 2019: Caufield #15 2020: Guhle #16 2021: Mailloux #31 -> MB fired 2022: Slafkovsky #1 2023: Reinbacher #5

I think credible RD depth is more valuable to the Habs at this point than one more fourth-rounder.

Habs Prospects All games are at Eastern time May 7 games United States at Slovakia 12:00 pm - Exhibition game (Bratislava, Slovakia) Cole Caufield (#22) - Juraj Slafkovský - Canada at Hungary 1:00 pm - Exhibition game (Budapest, Hungary) Kaiden Guhle (#21) -

Assume one of Mailloux, Struble, Harris, Kovacevic, Barron is gone this summer. What value would Mailloux & Jets pick be to the Jets? Would it be Cole Perfetti value?

Habs were FIVE points away (Dach injury?) from finishing 10th (pre-lottery) and not likely (per projections/expectations) having a sniff of the top defencemen ... my point being that unless you feel you are a guaranteed bottom 5 team for the next season you can't plan a current draft based on what players are available next year.

I think most feel that way about Dundon/Waddell as they tried to rub it in on the Habs at the time, good on them. Offer sheets rarely work out and I think Hughes knows this so I don't expect a repeat. Was KK immature when he was with the Habs? Yes Did the Habs make a big mistake keeping him here as an 18 year old? Yes Can you blame KK for jumping at the money? No Time to move on. He isn't coming back here.

I imagine the Hab scouts keep tabs on young top prospects in prep academies, rookies in CHL, U-16, etc and lots of youth tournaments. Last year it was noted, will be more high quality d-men in the 2024 draft and am sure Mgmt knew this. But; picking by position might not be best way to go with high school kids, to then be hedging bets on next year's draft 16 yr olds.

Strange how the perceived impact of a layoff (rested/rusty) or a long, tough series (tired/pumped) is always dependent on the result of the game ... I-M-O it is what the teams make of it.