Prospect Info: Draft 2025 Habs you're on the clock

[Laboeuf]

I would trade…

Our first round pick and a 2nd round pick to move up a few spots to take Brady Martin.
I would then trade Calgary’s first round pick and one of the second round pick to move up and take Ethan Bear.

For some reason I think Brady Martin and Ethan Bear are two character playoff guys. Think of Gallagher but bigger.

I would trade a second round pick and a third round pick to move up to high second and take

Daniil Prokhorov​

This guy looks and skates like Slafkovsky. Might be worth the risk for 2nd round.

I would trade Logan Mailloux for Trevor Zegras.

Demidov Suzuki Laine
Slafkovsky Zegras Caufield

 

[calder candidate]

Penguins may get the NYR 1st at 12ov. Would you guys be interested in 12+62 (Washington's 2nd) for 16+41 (Penguins 2nd back)?

It all depends who is left… technically 12+62 is worth probably more than 16+41 depending which charts you are using but this year I feel it will be very random, 12 and 16th might be closer than ever so I might prefer to have 41th than 62nd

 

[Seb]

I would trade…

Our first round pick and a 2nd round pick to move up a few spots to take Brady Martin.
I would then trade Calgary’s first round pick and one of the second round pick to move up and take Ethan Bear.

For some reason I think Brady Martin and Ethan Bear are two character playoff guys. Think of Gallagher but bigger.

I think you mean Carter Bear

 

[WeThreeKings]

I think you mean Carter Bear

I dunno, he wants Zegras so maybe he means Ethan.

 

[Redux91]

I would trade…

Our first round pick and a 2nd round pick to move up a few spots to take Brady Martin.
I would then trade Calgary’s first round pick and one of the second round pick to move up and take Ethan Bear.

For some reason I think Brady Martin and Ethan Bear are two character playoff guys. Think of Gallagher but bigger.

I would trade a second round pick and a third round pick to move up to high second and take

Daniil Prokhorov​

This guy looks and skates like Slafkovsky. Might be worth the risk for 2nd round.

I would trade Logan Mailloux for Trevor Zegras.

Demidov Suzuki Laine
Slafkovsky Zegras Caufield

I think it is *very* likely the extra 2nd we have and one of the extra 3rds is gonna be used with one of the 1's to move up a bit

And who *knows* what happens with our other 1st lol

Lots of options, it's fun

 

[salbutera]

Frondell, at 4th OA, might be NHL-ready, having already produced against adults in Europe. If not he's only a year away, IMO, after developing some muscle while playing another year with a shorter schedule in Europe.

Can Montreal trade Reinbacher for the 4th OA, and one of it's own two first round picks and a prospect for a stop-gap RHD, turning to the UFA market for a stop-gap top-6 C?

Montreal could then draft a top-6 C like Frondell with the 4th OA and a RHD like Hensler with the 16th OA. The 41st and 49th OA picks could also land some interesting prospects.

I don't know where Mrtka will get drafted, but, if we drafted a top-6 C with the 4th OA pick, I'd trade the 16th OA, the 17th OA , the 41st OA and the 49th OA to move up and draft him, if possible.

People seem to disregard Konyushkov as a valuable RHD prospect for the Habs. If nothing else, he will become minute-munching D that can play in all game situations, even if he is only 5'11". A future RHD depth of Mrtka - Konyushkov - Mailloux mightn't be all that bad at all.

The consensus is no projected 1st rounder from this years draft is NHL ready

 

[salbutera]

Centre is hardest to fill IMO.

You can always find LD who can play on the right (Guhle, Hutson, etc) but you usually can’t get a winger to play centre.

Habs should be looking to deal from redundancy but sometimes you don’t have a choice.

Disagree - #1D is the hardest and most important position to fill IMO

post 2004 lockout, 2006 Canes are the only team I can think of that won a Cup without a legit #1Dman

 

[TheFalk]

i would probalby try to find a stopgap center on FA or a cheap deal and use our many picks to move up and get something like 9 and 16 at the draft, go for something like Carter Bear and Justin Carbonneau. Good forward depth to keep the pipeline healthy

 

[Laboeuf]

I think you mean Carter Bear

Yeah Carter Bear lol

 

[Scotianhab]

i would probalby try to find a stopgap center on FA or a cheap deal and use our many picks to move up and get something like 9 and 16 at the draft, go for something like Carter Bear and Justin Carbonneau. Good forward depth to keep the pipeline healthy

Can get a better forward prospect than Bear at #9

 

[TheFalk]

Can get a better forward prospect than Bear at #9

Wouldn't mind taking a chance on McQueen if he's there or go for Lakovic for size, agreed, Bear would also be fine i think and has higher floor.

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

I dunno, he wants Zegras so maybe he means Ethan.

I would trade…

Our first round pick and a 2nd round pick to move up a few spots to take Brady Martin.
I would then trade Calgary’s first round pick and one of the second round pick to move up and take Ethan Bear.

For some reason I think Brady Martin and Ethan Bear are two character playoff guys. Think of Gallagher but bigger.

I would trade a second round pick and a third round pick to move up to high second and take

Daniil Prokhorov​

This guy looks and skates like Slafkovsky. Might be worth the risk for 2nd round.

I would trade Logan Mailloux for Trevor Zegras.

Demidov Suzuki Laine
Slafkovsky Zegras Caufield

1. Trading a 2nd and a 3rd just to move up up a little in the 2nd is an over payment imo
2. We need Zegras like we need an aggressive strain of genital warts tearing through the dressing room.
3. This does not address the size issue in the top 6.
4. I love Martin and Bear (Carter lol) so no argument at all about targeting these two
5. You were already out of 2025 2nd round picks after trading for Martin and Bear so you would need to trade a 2026 2nd in your bid to acquire Prokhorov which generally is less enticing to rival GM's. I also don't think adding a 2nd to one of our firsts puts you in the top 10 where Martin is likely to be selected.

 

[dcyhabs]

Why weren’t the Habs able to get decent 2Cs for over 30 years? They can be had now that the Habs have quality organizational assets they can trade but without that, you gotta draft and develop them and that just hasn’t been the Habs’s forte.

An unbroken series of terrible GMs since the last cup. Some of those GMs had some good points, but were bad overall, while most were just bad.

A good, or even so so, GM should be add secondary pieces. Top line/top pairing is tough.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Assuming things go well and we enter a cup-winning window in 4 years, it would be nice to have strong young players on cheap contracts at that time, that can eventually extend our window and facilitate a "rebuild on the fly", instead of rising and crashing.

Like the Lemaire-Cournoyer era of the early 1970s between the Béliveau and Lafleur eras.

I would stay put and draft BPA with those picks. Hopefully we hit at least one.

Not to mention, we're on a hot streak of luck. We are extremely lucky lately.

 

[sampollock]

trade 1 pick and then draft Spence

 

[BLONG7]

trade 1 pick and then draft Spence

I do thnk, they trade one of their 1st round picks, in a deal that finds us a 2C.

 

[River Meadow]

I do thnk, they trade one of their 1st round picks, in a deal that finds us a 2C.

Newhook,

Dach,

We're bound to hit on a 2C if we keep trying these trades at some point.

 

[le_sean]

Newhook,

Dach,

We're bound to hit on a 2C if we keep trying these trades at some point.

That’s why you shouldn’t

a) trade for a young player that a rebuilding team doesn’t even want (Dach)
b) trade for a player that couldn’t even fill the same role on his own team (Newhook)

 

[WeThreeKings]

That’s why you shouldn’t

a) trade for a young player that a rebuilding team doesn’t even want (Dach)
b) trade for a player that couldn’t even fill the same role on his own team (Newhook)

These are the exact moves that have been paying off for Florida the entire time.

 

[le_sean]

These are the exact moves that have been paying off for Florida the entire time.

Except Sam Bennett had proven to be a playoff warrior with the Flames. He was also not getting a fair chance, only averaging 12 mins a game with plugs. The potential was always there. Dach or Newhook never showed anything to give us that impression. They had their chances and blew it with their original teams.

 

[CHwest]

Except Sam Bennett had proven to be a playoff warrior with the Flames. He was also not getting a fair chance, only averaging 12 mins a game with plugs. The potential was always there. Dach or Newhook never showed anything to give us that impression. They had their chances and blew it with their original teams.

Really? I thought Dach was coming along nicely until his injury.

 

[le_sean]

Really? I thought Dach was coming along nicely until his injury.

We are talking about pre-trade. He looked like shit in Chicago and our first warning should have been that he’s even available at all. A rebuilding team that doesn’t want their 21 year old 3rd overall player? Red flag

 

[WeThreeKings]

Except Sam Bennett had proven to be a playoff warrior with the Flames. He was also not getting a fair chance, only averaging 12 mins a game with plugs. The potential was always there. Dach or Newhook never showed anything to give us that impression. They had their chances and blew it with their original teams.

Dach popped in the bubble playoffs, actually.

Sam Reinhart, Brandon Montour, Gustav Forsling.. all guys that rebuilding teams felt they could move on from.

 

[Habs]

Hope we pass on Lynden Lakovic , the softest 6'4 player I've ever seen in the W. I do like Spence though

 

[le_sean]

Dach popped in the bubble playoffs, actually.

Sam Reinhart, Brandon Montour, Gustav Forsling.. all guys that rebuilding teams felt they could move on from.

All far more proven, except Forsling who is just a lucky waiver pickup.