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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Based on what? Every leak last year had the most definite pick in that draft being Michkov to Montreal. It was a done deal according to everyone. Except it wasn't.
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IIRC there was a lot of noise leading up to the draft that the Habs really really liked Reinbacher actually, especially post combine and in the week before the draft.
I believe on the 32 thoughts podcast a week or two before the draft Elliotte actually said "People believe that if Will Smith is gone, then Montreal will take Reinbacher" which ended up being true.
Lots of the noise around Michkov and Montreal was earlier on in the season and more of the "Montreal is one of the places Michkov wants to play" variety...not necessarily that Montreal was interested in him though. And of course the Montreal fan base really wanted them to select Michkov which was also a lot of the noise.
Will be interesting to see though what is noise and what is real here from Montreal's end.