Not sure why Habs don't just go Euro with the 7th rounder. Most players that seem to make NHL in that round seem to be Euro.
No offense but it would be stupid to go into a draft and just say it's the 7th round just draft a Euro leaguer. But the other thing is just how flat out terrible the Habs have been with drafting Euro's since the days of Koivu's draft sans Emelin, Pleks, and Markov.
Outside of DLR Lehkonen and Nygren all the below are out of the organization and we have little to nothing show for it not counting the few that we got something from likes of Streit, Halak, Grabo, Perezhogin, and the Kostitsyn's. I didn't count any Euro's drafted out of the CHL.
'12-
Collberg (Swe), Nystrom (Swe)
'11- Pribyl (Czech)
'10- John Westin (Swe)
'09- Nattinen (Fin), Avtsin (Rus), Simila (Fin)
'08- Trunev (Rus)
'07- Torp (Swe)
'06- Valentenko (Rus)
'05- Mikus (Slovak)
'03- Christopher Heino-Lindberg (Swe), Korpikari (Fin)
'02- Linhart (Czech), Korneev (Rus)
'01- Jarventie (Fin), Ujcik (Czech)
'00- Johan Eneqvist (Swe), Petr Chvojka (Czech), Joni Puurula (Fin)
'99- Alexander Buturlin (Rus), Vadim Tarasov (Rus), Mikko Hyytia (Fin)
'98- Andre Bashkirov (Rus), Andrei Kruchinin (Rus)
'97- Ilkka Mikkola (Fin), Konstantin Sidulov (Rus), Petr Kubos (Czech), Andrei Sidyakin (Rus), Jarl Ygranes (Nor)
'96- Kim Staal (Swe), Timo Vertala (Fin), Mattia Baldi (Swiss)
'95- Miloslav Guren (Czech), Niklas Anger (Swe)
'94- Marko Kiprusoff (Fin), Arto Kuki (Fin), Peter Strom (Swe),
Tomas Vokoun (Czech)
Then add FA's like Mikael Johansson (Swe), Andreas Engqvist (Swe), Janne Lahti (Fin) which also busted.