To whoever has 2nd overall

Instead of giving up 3 firsts, and a former first, why don’t you just keep that pick if it is 6OA? There would still be good players on the board, depending on where you have guys going. I think you would at least get a guy like Helenius, Eiserman, or Catton. Of course some of those guys may go top 5, unless they choose a defender, but all three forwards will be pretty good, especially Catton imo. I guess it depends on what all you want…

I feel like if MTL trades up to 2 they aren't going to take a guy who is several years out. They will take a guy like Lindstrom who will be able to join the team pretty much immediately. Habs are getting to the end of their rebuild, they need immediate impact imo.

Because Helenius, Eiserman, or Catton arent as good as Demidov and the Habs dont need those 2 extra 1st rounders

Demidov is as mnay years out as someone like Lindstrom. Dev will be just done in Russia instead of NA

Assuming that Montreal is between #5 and #7, then you should only have to trade up to #4 to get either Demidov or Lindstrom because Celebrini will go #1 and I think that Levshunov will go to Anaheim.