Kent Hughes: Elliotte Friedman says there isn’t a more aggressive GM

As soon as the Montreal Canadiens’ season came to an end, everyone’s primary goal for the off-season was to get their hands on a second center.

It was pretty clear that this was the mandate Kent Hughes would have between now and the start of the next campaign.

Well, here we are a few months later, and Kent Hughes has improved the team, but has not added the sought-after second center.

While everyone expected the Habs GM to get his hands on a top-6 forward, Hughes went for a top-4 right-handed defenseman in Noah Dobson.

This came as a surprise to many, including Elliotte Friedman, who stated in his final 32 Thoughts episode of the season that Kent Hughes was clearly the most active and aggressive general manager since the start of the off-season.

Friedman stated that Dobson wanted to join the Canadiens, so Hughes did what was necessary to improve his team, given that we can never have enough offensive talent coming from our defense.

But the fact remains that the Habs are still lacking something offensively, especially with the losses of Emil Heineman, Christian Dvorak and Joel Armia.

And according to Elliotte Friedman, Kent Hughes could very well be on the move by the start of the season, because he’s exactly the kind of general manager who’s never done working.