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We’re revisiting the Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche Artturi Lehkonen for Justin Barron trade, and how it’s now looking a lot better for the Habs with the acquisitions of Alexandre Carrier and Michael Hage.
This video is taking place after the 2024 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2024 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) San Jose Sharks, Macklin Celebrini
2nd) Chicago Blackhawks, Artyom Levshunov
3rd) Anaheim Ducks, Beckett Sennecke
4th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Cayden Lindstrom,
5th) Montreal Canadiens, Ivan Demidov
6th) Utah Hockey Club, Tij Iginla
7th) Ottawa Senators, Carter Yakemchuk
8th) Seattle Kraken, Berkly Catton
9th) Calgary Flames, Zayne Parekh
10th) New Jersey Devils, Anton Silayev
11th) San Jose Sharks (from Buffalo Sabres), Sam Dickinson
12th) Minnesota Wild (from Philadelphia Flyers), Zeev Buium
13th) Philadelphia Flyers (from Minnesota Wild), Jett Luchanko
14th) Buffalo Sabres (from Pittsburgh Penguins via San Jose Sharks), Konsta Helenius
15th) Detroit Red Wings, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard
16th) St. Louis Blues, Adam Jiricek
17th) Washington Capitals, Terik Parascak
18th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Sacha Boisvert
19th) Vegas Golden Knights, Trevor Connelly
20th) New York Islanders (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Chicago Blackhawks), Cole Eiserman
21st) Montreal Canadiens (from Los Angeles Kings), Michael Hage
22nd) Nashville Predators, Yegor Surin
23rd) Anaheim Ducks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Stian Solberg
24th) Utah Hockey Club (from Colorado Avalanche), Cole Beaudoin
25th) Boston Bruins (from Boston Bruins via Detroit Red Wings and Ottawa Senators), Dean Letourneau
26th) Los Angeles Kings (from Winnipeg Jets via Montreal Canadiens), Liam Greentree
27th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Marek Vanacker
28th) Calgary Flames (from Vancouver Canucks), Matvei Gridin
29th) Dallas Stars, Emil Hemming
30th) New York Rangers, EJ Emery
31st) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Edmonton Oilers via Anaheim Ducks), Ben Danford
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Florida Panthers via Philadelphia Flyers), Sam O’Reilly
This video is also taking place after 2025 NHL Season, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.
Artturi Lehkonen was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2013 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:
1st – Colorado Avalanche, Nathan MacKinnon
2nd – Florida Panthers, Aleksander Barkov
3rd – Tampa Bay Lightning, Jonathan Drouin
4th – Nashville Predators, Seth Jones
5th – Carolina Hurricanes, Elias Lindholm
6th – Calgary Flames, Sean Monahan
7th – Edmonton Oilers, Darnell Nurse
8th – Buffalo Sabres, Rasmus Ristolainen
9th – Vancouver Canucks (from New Jersey Devils), Bo Horvat
10th – Dallas Stars, Valeri Nichushkin
11th – Philadelphia flyers, Samuel Morin
12th – Phoenix Coyotes, Max Domi
13th – Winnipeg Jets, Josh Morrissey
14th – Columbus Blue Jackets, Alexander Wennberg
15th – New York Islanders, Ryan Pulock
16th – Buffalo Sabres (from Minnesota Wild), Nikita Zadorov
17th – Ottawa Senators, Curtis Lazar
18th – San Jose Sharks (from Detroit Red Wings), Mirco Mueller
19th – Columbus Blue Jackets (from New York Rangers), Kerby Rychel
20th – Detroit Red Wings (from San Jose Sharks), Anthony Mantha
21st – Toronto Maple Leafs, Frederik Gauthier
22nd – Calgary Flames (from St. Louis Blues), Emile Poirier
23rd – Washington Capitals, Andre Burakovsky
24th – Vancouver Canucks, Hunter Shinkaruk
25th – Montreal Canadiens, Michael McCarron
26th – Anaheim Ducks, Shea Theodore
27th – Columbus Blue Jackets (from Los Angeles Kings), Marko Dano
28th – Calgary Flames (from Pittsburgh Penguins), Morgan Klimchuk
29th – Dallas Stars (from Boston Bruins), Jason Dickinson
30th – Chicago Blackhawks, Ryan Hartman
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13 Comments
Where's the kane trade video???
Looking forward to the Kane reaction. Like WTF?
Evander Kane was traded !!!
Michael Hage pick was the 1st rounder from the Winnipeg Jets pick for Monahan
The 2nd rounder could have been any of the 2nd rounders Habs had…
But yes the Barron for Carrier was shrude
Too bad choosing to keep Barron out of camp and letting go of Kovacevic was the only real undisputed L in Hughes trades so far
So basically
Lekhonen for
Alex Carrier
&
Michael Hage’s left leg
Habs basically lose the Lekky trade but made it up with the Carrier trade
At the time of that trade, Lehkonen, was basically playing 3rd/4th line minutes in MTL, mostly a PK specialist. In his top season (31pts in MTL) the top scorer on the team had 72 pts and Lehkonen was tied for 10th on the team in pts.
In Colorado, he was playing 2nd or even 1st line minutes during playoffs with the Avs. His best season was 51 pts and the top scorer had 111 pts. Lehkonen was 5th in pts that season with Colorado, but played with much more productive players.
Everyone in MTL was sad to see Lehkonen leave, but happy for him to get to play with these players in Colorado.
For MTL with that specific trade, time will tell for Hage, but he could potentially end up being as good or better than Lehkonen was in MTL.
So yeah, it could very well end up a win win trade, or even a win for MTL if Hage tops out at over 50pts at some point.
Today is good for you
There was a 2nd round pick, 57th overall, also given to the Kings in the trade to move up 5 picks. 26th, 57th and 198th for 21st.
Habs lost because Lehkhonen help Colorado Won the Cup, simple as that ! As long the guys involve in the trade don't bring back the cup to Montreal they lose the trade. In another words it's Stanley Cup or bust !
Great way to see things. Cost you a 7th to move up in the draft.
Take it a level higher. It’s fantastic asset management. They missed on their first attempt but got it really good on the 2nd attempt. Carrier as a 4-5ish defence for leks after the year he had. Habs fan here but omg he missed so many many opportunities to get minimum 5-10 goals a year more. It was fair to think he wasn’t gonna evolve much more but very serviceable and respectable caliber player. To get a mid level dman that’s cost controled and hand handed. It fits a need we needed bad!
They hit a homerun of value on the 2nd go around after missing on Barron.
And finally so happy for leks. Brought his game to another level and cup champ! Sometimes it’s great all around and both teams hit homeruns! Took a risk and it payed off
Good trade they got a really good centre and d
Nah the trade still sucks for us, Lehkonen was genuinely a great role player and has shown to be even better on Colorado, meanwhile we only got a 2nd and Justin Barron (a player I immediately called overrated when the trade was announced but other habs fans were fawning over him for some reason). To the surprise of no one, Barron became a bust and he got shipped off to Nashville for Carrier who's decent but not nearly worth half as much as Lehkonen. I still hate that trade to this day and still believe that Colorado easily won that trade; not sure why other habs fans aren't pointing out Hughes' mistakes whenever he makes them.
Looked great when the Avs won the cup too