I wouldn't look to deep into who took whom for dinner. It was also reported in 2022 that Montreal took several players out for dinner, but not Slafkovsky, whom they ended up drafting 1st OA anyway.
It could mean that they already feel settled in on someone and want to give a couple of other guys a last chance to impress one-on-one.
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