Draft 2024 picks 1st round. Comments?

Help on Defense?? Guhle, Hutson, Reinbacher, Mailloux, Barron, Xhekaj, Struble, Harris, Engstrom, Matheson,

Help on defense is the last thing we need, we’re drafting Lindstrom if he’s there, if not Iginla or Sennecke

why do they have the number 5 pick then?

I'd be very happy with Catton at 10 for NJD

nashville drafted a R last year

"They have good centers and good wingers and need more help on the defense. I think by adding Zeev is going to be the best option for montreal. If they pass on zeev, they'll take sam dickenson but ill go with zeev on my final answer"

What universe do you live on? Cause that is almost opposite to MTL IRL.

Maybe because 3/4 of our future top 4 are still prospects. A weakness right now doesn’t mean a weakness long term. Gotta look at the depth long term

Habs have an excess of solid Left hand defenseman - they need scoring up front. Hughes has stated that they are very unlikely to take a LHD and Buium is not the Best Available player on the board at pick #5. They are taking Demidov if available, Lindstrom, Iginla or Catton in that order.
At pick #27 if they don't trade it up, I suspect they pick Henry Mews or possibly Matevi Gridin.

the universe that says draft the players you need because if you got the 5th pick in the draft this year, most likely its because your defense sucked. and sure enough, after looking at the habs roster, their defense sucked.

there is an excess of everything on the team but the habs dont have a bad first few lines on their roster and do have a horrible defense as of right now. How do you know for sure the depth for their defense is actually going to be any good at the nhl level? With the 5th pic overall in this draft their are plenty of Defensemen that are going to be nhl ready and most likely good players immediately vs waiting years before hoping your current depth of defensemen are ready to play. Go Defense now while you still got the pick and you will be good to go for in the NEAR future. Its either that your you guys can throw another season in hopes of landing another top pick, just like chicago did to get bedard

Their lack of scoring is a more pressing need. They need a bigger centre to take the heat off Suzuki so that Dach or Newhook are better suited as wingers.
At LHD, Habs currently have Matheson 11g, 51a last year, Team Canada world championship Defenseman Kaiden Guhle, Up and coming two time Hobey Baker NCAA finalist nominee Lane Hutson (speed, small offensive), Arber Xhekaj for toughness - 3rd pairing, Jayden Struble who surprised with promotion to the team last year and blew away his draft combine in physical fitness tests, Adam Engstrom - an up an comer out of sweden, and Jack of all trades Jordan Harris - 7 - count them and 6 other than Matheson all under the age of 24! I would not call that LHD side horrible in terms of development ceiling.
If anything on D the habs should pick a RHD like Parekh or Yakemchuk but they are not best player available at #5. Sam Dickinson is overrated like Jack Quinn was in his draft year as he plays on an incredibly stacked London Knights team - Does Dickinson lead that team? No Cowan, Bonk, Haltunen etc. are the leaders and make Dickinson look good.
You're about the ONLY one that says Habs pick a LHD-man. EVERY other mock draft specialist says pick a forward or RHD at #5.

Ok i'll give you that on your info, thanks for providing it. That depth sounds promising to me as well actually. My argument about it tho was a defensemen in general, i didn't look into as far as a LHD or RHD. There for were both kind of right. as far as the offense goes, of course you can never go wrong with having a better offense. And who knows, maybe with all the top 10 defensemen that are ranked, a bunch of suprises comes through and teams will draft all the wingers because its almost a gurentee of skill out of the player whereas it seems like most of the defensemen in this draft, except levshunov are not 100% to be a all star defensemen. that being said, you never actually know who is going to adapt well to the nhl level until they get there and do it. thats why there are 3rd rounders that are superstars over a lot of 1st rounders that were drafted in the same year. So you Have to go for what the team needs as a rule to success in building a team right? This is why in basketball nba for an example 2007 draft, the rule of thumb was that number 1 pick Greg Oden was the big 7ft dominate player, and the unwritten rule is that you always take the big guy because dominite centers in the nba are hard to come by. The 2nd overall pick was Instant Hall of Famer, Kevin Durant. Greg Oden was injured in his first season and never played again. Kevin Durant is on the verge of being top 3 and has a possibility of top 2 or even 1 if he stays long enough probably not though, to be th all time scoring champion in the NBA. So in NHL You have to choose the player that suits the teams needs no matter what. and in the Habs case, they Need D. lol or you all can cluster up a bunch of centers and wingers like you always do, and hope your offense can get the job done, my bet is, you end up back here in the draft next year with another top 5 pick.

Montreals best prospects are all defencemen: Reinbacher, Hutson and Mailloux are the top 3. Montreal has 1, maybe 2 forwards that even crack the top 10 of the whole prospect pool. So unless you think Caufield, Suzuki, Slaf and Dach is enough talent upfront (which I think no one does) you need a high end forward to make the top 6 more effective.

that sounds like an answer that would make me think montreal will defintely choose a forward with their first pick, maybe even their 2nd. they difintely need another decent line in there bolstered