Confirmed with Link: Canadiens acquire 2024 1st (21OA) from the Kings for 2024 1st (26OA), 2024 2nd (57OA) and 2024 7th (198OA)

[Garbageyuk]

You expect them to come out and say "We made the trade to draft another guy but he got picked, so we had to fall back to Hage"?

Wether or not the end result was their plan all along, we'll probably never know. Not for many years at least.

Lol, this. Nobody can read between the lines around here, and they take everything Hughes says at face value. The man was a player agent. He’s not going to say anything before or after that reveals the way the team operates behind the scenes. The smart thing to say is the guys you picked were your targets all along, whether it’s actually true or not. What the actual truth is, we’ll never know. It doesn’t matter anymore anyway. Be excited about the guys we got.

 

[overlords]

Greentree has bad feet. Hage is a better fit and has center potential. He's a more valuable prospect even if Greentree could hit higher.

Hage has the ghost of his father in a habs jersey cheering him on. You can't put a ceiling on that.