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Originally Posted by Steve's Stick
We've seen teams prioritize need recently over BPA: MTL passed on Michkov for Reinbacher, CHI Levshunov over Demidov. But not to my recollection at 1OV.
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Montreal gets heat for passing on Michkov but I think it was largely because Michkov had made it known that he was only going to come over, earlier, for certain teams like Philly. He engineered the outcome he wanted.
For what it's worth I think the guy the Habs should have picked was Ryan Leonard. He would be an excellent part of what they are building.
Hard to criticize them though - they've made a lot of good moves.