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Whatever Happened to the Canadiens' 26th Overall Pick: Nikita Scherbak?

Whatever Happened to the Canadiens' 26th Overall Pick: Nikita Scherbak?

Every draft has a name that felt like a sure thing at the time and just never got there. For Montreal, that's Nikita Scherbak. Taken 26th overall in 2014, scouts loved the tools — a dynamic, playmaking winger with real offensive instincts, someone THW compared to Marián Gaborik and TSN compared him to Jakub Voráček.

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