What's everyone's obsession with the habs trading for a top 10 pick to draft a forward in a defense heavy class that's overall weaker than the average draft when they already have a top 5 pick and likely get one of the few forwards actually worth being top 10

that would not get 6th OA.

That's not even close, especially since the chances are they'd get Florida's 2025 1st. Definitely have to lose Arizonas 2nd going back too. It would probably cost Hutson or Reinbacher, since that's what they'd be giving up, the chance to get a top pairing defenseman with their pick.

Doesn’t really do much for Arizona, they have an abundance of picks and quantity of prospects, they are shooting for gold, need of franchise changers via draft/free agency or any trades.

Absolutely right, and not only about the point that I've emphasized. Arizona isn't giving up the seventh overall pick without getting a 2024 first (or the equivalent, like Hutson) back. Consider just the top prospects at their positions, all of who are rated in the top 10: Celebrini, Catton and Lindstrom (Cs), Buium and Dickinson (LDs), and Levshunov and Parekh (RDs), plus wild cards Demidov, Connelly and Yakemchuk. Assuming that one of the forwards goes in the first three with Celebrini and Levshunov, any of the remaining seven choices are a better value than the two complementary defensemen and the Florida 2025 first. And I haven't included Eiserman, Helenius or Silayev in this calculus.

Not even close to getting 06 OV. Like I refrain from saying it because I don't think GM's actually do this but if they did, this would be worthy of a "laughs and hangs up" type of response.

I’d do Matheson or Guhle for the pick straight up. I think Utah would definitely consider especially since it sounds like they want to compete and go for it right away. And they were probably likely to take a dman with the pick anyways.

Mainly because the Habs need forwards and not Defencemen

but with our own pick we can get one for sure, and I think you can get better already established guys for the same price as moving up to say 9th overall, this draft isn't strong enough for forwards to justify moving up. Last year would've been a great draft to do it, but this year not so much