credit, but it was clearly a rental as well.

Draft Picks

McCarron, De La Rose, Fucale, Lehkonen, Crisp, Andrighetto, Renway, Gregoire. Not the worst of drafts. McCarron is promising and what the Habs need. His development at Centre is strong. He may not be a 1st line centre, but he should have an impact. Fucale is playing in the AHL. No other real impact players selected.

Next Season

March 2015 – Jack Nevins and a 7th round pick in 2016 traded to Buffalo Sabres for Torrey Mitchell

March 2015 – 2nd round pick #57 (Jonas Siegenthaler – Washington via New York Rangers) in 2015 and a 4th round pick #117 (Caleb Jones) in 2015 traded to Edmonton Oilers for Jeff Petry. There was a condition that if Montreal won one round in the2014-15 playoffs, the 5th would become a 4th round pick (triggered), two rounds and it would become a 3rd round pick.

June 2014 – Louis Leblanc traded to Anaheim Ducks for conditional 5th round pick #148 (Troy Terry – Anaheim) in 2015. Condition was on Leblanc playing 15 games for Anaheim in 2014-15 which he failed to do, so the 5th round pick reverted to Anaheim.

Not one of these moves were focused on the major needs of the team. There was some clever trades, but they didn’t really help the team. Acquiring bad players from bad teams doesn’t lead to character or winning, does it?

Draft Picks

Scherbak, Lernout, Koberstein, Audette, Hawkey, Evans. Montreal had no 2nd or 4th round picks. Sherbak has put up 21 points in 41 games in