Habs draft: The Snake gives a grade of 9/10

Zharovsky’s selection at 34th was the steal of the draft, according to Snake.

And rightly so. If you look at his MHL highlights, the guy’s got talent spilling out of his ears.

In fact, the Snake sees Zharovsky becoming a top-6 forward with the Habs soon.

When a second-round pick has the potential to become a top-6 forward, it’s very encouraging. Even more so when the Habs have long been in need of pure forward talent.

As for the rest of the Habs draft, we know that the club selected a lot of big defensemen, which is always useful, especially in the later rounds.

One such defenseman was Bryce Pickford, an almost point-per-game right-handed defenseman with the Medicine Hat Tigers (Gavin McKenna’s team).

Pickford was selected 81st overall with the Vancouver Canucks’ pick for Casey DeSmith, and the Snake could easily see him going out in the second round.

Another first-round coup for the Habs.

And in the fourth round, we can also talk about LJ Mooney, Logan Cooley’s cousin, an extremely talented, but 5-foot-7 forward.

The Snake added that if he were 6 feet tall, he’d come out between 20th and 25th.

Not saying he’d become a Logan Stankoven, but he’s a pretty similar player and the comparison was made by Simon Boisvert and Mathias Brunet.

Let’s not forget that these are all relatively late picks and the chances of them reaching the NHL are pretty slim.

In the Process episode above, at around the 23-minute mark, Boisvert points out that there may only be one player drafted this year who reaches the NHL.

Brunet added to that by saying that if there is just one, without any first-round picks, that’s a win.

In short, the Habs seem to have made some very good choices, and in the worst-case scenario, they’ll have gone for Noah Dobson, which is a win in itself.

Overtime

– Interesting stuff.

– Already 23 seasons for the King.

– Two double-header signings for the New York Islanders.

– Well.

– To be continued.