My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

Man woke up & chose to combine the three most polarizing topics in a same ACGM

1. Habs drafting Slafkovsky 1OA
2. Petry to Detroit
3. Anderson to the Islanders

Isles easily decline I don’t know how many times isles fans have to say it

Sprinkle in a Carey Price trade and you've got the ultimate cupcake of insanity!

Slightly disappointed because @dirtydangle only managed to add 3 French Canadians here. There should be a minimum of 5 jouers de Québec in every Habs ACGM.

Missing Sam Girard

Never too late! Do I smell a Girard for Price swap?!?

Only if Habs add Drouin to reunite with MacKinnon and get Lehkonen back.

🤯

Poehling for Girard, straight up!

Habs add in first overall to wings trade

Oh heavens! Might as well sign good 'ol PEI boys Darcy Ashley and Brent Andrews to get the band back together!

I never noticed him back then, but Weegar was on that powerhouse team as well.

I forgot about Timo Meier as well, and big bomber Martin Frk! And how "meh" Fucale was in both 13 and 14, both in the Q and at the WJC, and then he went 36 OA because he was a winnnnnnner! Not that they missed much for the rest of the 2nd round (And got Lehk later on), but yeah, wild.

girard makes a lot of sense for the habs

Oh and to say I was mad they didn't pick Fucale with their 1st round pick. Thankfully they got an important NHL center in McCarron.

Some baaaaad draft years in there for the Habbies For our viewing pleasure, 1st round picks from 2009-2018
-Louie Leblanc (Kreider went next)
-Jared Tinordi (Hayes and Kuzy were within 4 picks)
-Nathan Beaulieu (Least you didn't take Tyler Biggs? Rakell/Gibby to Anaheim!!!)...snagged Danault from Chicago later on though!
-Galchenyuk (Rielly, Hampus, Dumba within 4 picks...at least you didn't take Reinhart?)
-McCarron (Shea Theodore was the next pick)
-Nikitaaaaa future GOAT Sherbakkkkkk! (Nothing really there until Demko at 36...Everyone else missed on Point).
-Juulsen (Beau a couple of picks later, and plenty missed on Aho for some reason...)
-Serg (Jesus Christ Bergy.)
-Poehling (Meh, you weren't taking Oettinger and Jason Robertson is a god)
-JESPERRIIIII COTTONCANDDYYYYYY (Not as bad as taking Hayton I guess?)

In fairness, a number of those guys were mid-late 1st rounders, but if that isn't enough of an example as to why we should overvalue draft picks that aren't at the top of the 1st round, I don't know what is! I'm genuinely curious as to how much the player development crew actually helps with prospect development at the end of the day, or whether the majority of it is either poor scouting. And this isn't a Habs-specific thing at all, because it happens to every team...just from a Ducks perspective, the Jones/Steel/Larsson/Ritchboiiii years were pretty "Meh", and the Burkie years were as bad as one would expect as well (McMillan/Mitera)

Detroit laughs and hangs up the phone..

Detroit is rebuilding.. no need for a 34 year old
Montreal needs Petry 10x more