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We’re going over the Montreal Canadiens desire to trade up to the 2nd overall pick at the 2023 NHL Entry Draft to select Adam Fantilli.
Article: https://theathletic.com/4610276/2023/06/14/canadiens-offseason-nhl-draft-monahan
The 2023 NHL Entry Draft is filled with a lot of top NHL prospects. Some are elite, and others could be even seen as franchise NHL prospects. Names to look out for include Connor Bedard, Matvei Michkov, Adam Fantilli, Brayden Yager, Leo Carlsson, Calum Ritchie, Zach Benson, Cameron Allen, Dalibor Dvorsky, Charlie Stramel, Nate Danielson, Ethan Gauthier, Eduarde Sale, Otto Stenberg, Colby Barlow, Kasper Halttunen, Will Smith, Ryan Leonard, Quentin Musty, Oliver Moore, Riley Heidt, Andrew Cristall, Zeb Forsfjall, Theo Lindstein, Mikhail Gulyayev, Hunter Brzustewicz, Maxim Strbak, Gavin Brindley, William Whitelaw, Gabe Perreault, Lukas Dragicevic, Alex Ciernik, Caden Price, and Koehn Ziemmer.
This video is taking place after the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2022 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Montreal Canadiens, Juraj Slafkovsky
2nd) New Jersey Devils, Simon Nemec
3rd) Arizona Coyotes, Logan Cooley
4th) Seattle Kraken, Shane Wright
5th) Philadelphia Flyers, Cutter Gauthier
6th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), David Jiricek
7th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Ottawa Senators), Kevin Korchinski
8th) Detroit Red Wings, Marco Kasper
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Matthew Savoie
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Pavel Mintyukov
11th) Arizona Coyotes (from San Jose Sharks), Conor Geekie
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Denton Mateychuk
13th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Frank Nazar
14th) Winnipeg Jets, Rutger McGroarty
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
16th) Buffalo Sabres (Vegas Golden Knights), Noah Ostlund
17th) Nashville Predators, Joakim Kemell
18th) Dallas Stars, Lian Bichsel
19th) Minnesota Wild (from LA Kings), Liam Ohgren
20th) Washington Capitals, Ivan Miroshnichenko
21st) Pittsburgh Penguins, Owen Pickering
22nd) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Nathan Gaucher
23rd) St. Louis Blues, Jimmy Snuggerud
24th) Minnesota Wild, Danila Yurov
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Rinzel
26th) Montreal Canadiens (from Calgary Flames), Filip Mesar
27th) San Jose Sharks (from Carolina Hurricanes via Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens), Filip Bystedt
28th) Buffalo Sabres (from Florida Panthers), Jiri Kulich
29th) Arizona Coyotes (from Edmonton Oilers), Maveric Lamoureux
30th) Winnipeg Jets (from New York Rangers), Brad Lambert
31st) Tampa Bay Lightning, Isaac Howard
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Colorado Avalanche via Arizona Coyotes), Reid Schaefer
This video is also taking place after 2022 NHL Season, and after the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Colorado Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Finals.
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35 Comments
The Red Wings are also probably looking to move up from #9 & #17. But like Montreal, it is probably not going to happen. 😀
5th, Dach and Hutson. Win win for both teams
I reject all MTL fans trade proposals 😂
Habs trynna get everybody at this point 💀
The Red Wings might give up 2 second round picks for Montreal's #31 pick. That is moving up & down, for either team.
If Montreal made any of those offers suggested besides the Slafkovsky one they get hung up on.
Nah. My Ducks ain't giving him up.
The first 4 teams in the draft would be stupid to trade their choices. I don't think Montreal has enough good upcoming players to leverage this trade.
Dach and the 5th is no doubt a go.
Don't gamble or else? Listen to grandpa 👴
I wouldn't like to trade Dach away. Would I like to see Slafkovski to be traded ? Not really. The idea of trading both 5th and 31st, adding a prospect like Owen Beck, or a young defensemen like Jordan Harris (Habs already have great defensemen knocking at the door), that would be something I would look into, but more than that, I would keep my 5th pick.
In the other hand, if I was the Ducks, would I trade my 2nd pick ? Hell no, Fantilli could be a franchise type of player, you don't want to lose him.
Now, as for the 4th round pick, if I was Briere, certainly I would ask a lot for my 4th pick, knowing Smith would be targeted by Montreal. Even if I had planned to take a guy like Mitchkov, because I know I'll not be ready to be contender until the next 3 or 4 years, I would let everyone knows that I aim for Smith so if Habs wants him, they'll pay for it. I would probably ask what I would have offered to Anaheim, so both of the 1st round pick + a promising prospect for the 4th overall pick. Again, I wouldn't do it as a Hab.
I think Mitchkov is the right pick at 5th place, if he is available of course, he might be. If they clearly don't want to deal with the russian guy, then a Leonard or Benson would be my choice.
This is the Bergevin special, make a point of trying to do something that was never going to work out anyway, just for the sake of looking like you're doing something.
As a Ducks fan if Montreal is that desperate to move up they have to give up something high value I mean your asking to move up 3 spots Anaheim has the leverage here.
Yeah, no way Anaheim takes either one of those trades.
The trade is 5ova, Florida’s 1st and a young dman (not Ghule, not Hutson).
Otherwise its not going down.
Mitchkov is the only reason a team would trade down (if that team see him as the no 2, they could trade down knowing he will be available at 5) .
Montreal is staying at #5 and will mess it up by not picking Michkov if he's still available.
MTL is crazy for trying to move up from a 5th overall pick in a stacked draft.
They shouldn’t worry about SJ picking their guy at #4. SJ is going to go off the board with the new guys they have running the draft. 😅
Okay if habs trade Slaf and draft michkov they would laugh,montreal would be stupid to go for it,if they want 2nd they should package Hutson 5th pick,mesar and maybe Edmundson or Anderson if habs trade Slafkovsky it would be such a mistake
dach wih 14 goals and Slafkovsk who may never make it in a deal for a guy capable of being a franchise player,keep dreaming..
If the Ducks ask for Slafkovsky, you hang up.
The no brainer is to pray to god that michkov is available at 5, and theres good chance he will be.
As a ducks fan, i want habs to stop bothering us
Lets get the wings up to at least 3 …
Pick 3(carlsson) and maybe try to get ceulemans for Anderson mesar/beck 5 pick and next year 2 round (col)
First Line potentially dominating centers are rare, Ducks keep the pick.
5th overall + Slafkovsky is not gonna cut it, I'm afraid.
Moving up to 4 seems doable. Moving to 2 would be just too expensive.
Dach and the 5th overall isn't going to do it for either the 2nd or even 3rd overall pick. The price in this years draft is too high. The ask would be Suzuki and the 5th overall for either 2nd or 3rd overall. Habs are better off staying at 5th.
Omfg why dont they just pick Smith or Michkov at 5th Overall. All these trade speculations on giving up valuable young talent just to move up 1 or 3 spots isn't worth it.
This will not happen !
If you got up to #2. U still have a chance at bedard. But not very likely
If i was Anaheim, it would be Suzuki and 5th pick, nothing less. That and a good vet to lead the kids. Dach and Flav are WAY too uncertain values.
I don't even know why thete are talks about moving to 4th… It wouldn't change anything since they don't want Mitchkov. So why the hell would they give something away to get the same guy?
Sean Ferrel and the 5th?