Habs New Year's Resolutions & 2014 Draft Class Revisited
A look at the Habs' new year's resolutions, their 2014 draft class, and more.
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In today’s edition, we take a look at the Habs' new year's resolutions, their 2014 draft class, and more.
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Canadiens News & Rumors: Hutson, Allen, Injuries & More
January 1, 2024 by Blain Potvin
In this edition of the Montreal Canadiens News & Rumors, Lane Hutson keeps doing Lane Hutson things at the World Junior Championships (WJC). Other Canadiens prospects are making waves as well. Despite injuries continuing to plague the team as the team hovers around a playoff spot, their game is starting to fall as teams that were struggling are starting to outpace them for the final wild-card spot. General manager (GM) Kent Hughes will have significant work and hard decisions as the trade deadline approaches, as eyes turn to the team’s goaltenders and defensemen.
Montreal Canadiens Make Their New Year’s Resolutions for 2024
December 31, 2023 by Ryan Szporer
The playoffs remain an overall goal for the Montreal Canadiens heading into 2024, just not necessarily for 2024. Even if it’s inherently unlikely the Habs make the playoffs, no one’s saying they should stay complacent. In fact, they themselves have each made resolutions for the new year. Here they are:
Montreal Canadiens’ 2014 Draft Class Revisited
December 28, 2023 by Rob Couch
Welcome back to another edition of the Montreal Canadiens draft class revisited, where we take a look at each selection and use hindsight to determine whether they made the right choice or missed out on big-name talent. Next up is 2014, one of the shorter classes of the decade, with just six picks in total.
Routinely making the playoffs under the helm of Marc Bergevin, the Canadiens used some of the draft picks to obtain trade deadline talent to bolster their chances of a Stanley Cup. They traded their 2014 second-round pick to the New York Islanders in a package for forward Thomas Vanek and also packaged their own third and fourth-round picks in 2014 to move up in the draft.
With that out of the way, six players joined the Canadiens’ prospect pipeline, which meant little wiggle room to miss out on future talent. The 2013 Draft class contained no defensemen, so would this become a trend that continues into 2014? Let’s take a look.