7th overall in a deep draft for sure

MTL isn’t doing that

They might want to reunite Hugues and Caufield but MTL won’t trade their best prospect who’s a goal scorer

Caufield dropped in a less deep draft no way he is a piece that gets you in the top 10 alone.

I like caufield alot and did not think he was gonna fall like that but there is no chance of this trade being a straight 1 for 1

And if Drysdale drop to the 7th spot ??

In any mock redraft of last year cole caufield is almost always a top 5 or top 10 so your point about is rank last year is irrelevant. The fact that he have been one of the most hyped prospect around the league make him much more valuable then you think. A guys like philip Broberg have lost tremendous value since he havent had a good development year this season. The fact that he was drafted ahead of Caufield doesn’t make him more valuable.

Caufield fell in his draft because of size, that's fine it happens every year or so but why in the hell would we trade him -who just won freshman of the year-? That's why Montreal's idling for the past 10 years, as soon as we get a new toy we want to get rid of the previous one; KK vs Poehling, Juulsen vs Fleury, Domi vs Suzuki and now Caufield vs a pick (Most likely Holtz?). Can't we just enjoy what we have and keep a complete roster instead of trading everyone?

It does matter pretty much the same GMs were at the bottom last year could have taken caufield and did not I cant see anyone trading a top 10 pick in a better draft for caufield now.
Like I said I think caufield was top 10 last year for sure
And it didnt shake up that way. And he had a good season in NCAA but nothing to warrant a top 10 pick this year.
Perfetti rossi raymond drysdale are all better than caufield
Holtz is close both goal scorers
So you already out of the top 7 8

Drysdale will go top 5 for sure

All better ahahah and based on what can you say such thing. Your opinion is not a fact. They are all good prospect but the only three great prospect are laffy Stutzle and Byfield after no one is clearly better then Caufield they are player with offensive potential ( rossi, holtz, raymond or Perfetti) same a Caufield

Devils pass, they're likely to get a better player than Caufield with that pick.

Drysdale doesn’t fall to #6

Anaheim is the number 6 and their a lot of talk that they are in complete love with Cole Perfetti. Ottawa will probably go for either Askarov or Raymond at number 5 so there a possibility that he will be available at number 7

Better players? Caufield is a top 5 prospect around the league. At number 7 they will get a good players for sure but better only time will tell. The only players that have that status are Stutzle, Byfield and Lafrenière for the rest there no players that is significantly better.

Bro it's not just my opinion why would he drop to 15 last year then. And what makes him more valuable this year? With no nhl pedigree I'm just confused on where your thinking lies

Trading their best goal-scoring prospect since Max Pacioretty when the Habs has had the trouble to score. It would be the same as the previous trade which sent Sergachev to Tampa even though he was their only top LHD prospect.

Rumors Raymond fell of the top10 lol Raymond isn’t better than Lafreniere Byfield Stutzle Drysdale Perfetti Rossi after you have Raymond Holtz Sanderson Askarov

There only three players that are clearly in different categories the other have some upside But depending on team preference the next 7 can go 4th or 10th there no much difference between them.

How Kyle Connor have drop to 17 in 2015? He was projected top ten in most of the insider list. How Evgeny Kuznetzov have drop to 25th overall? He was supposed to go mid first round? Do you have answer for that? Draft isn’t science, the only sure thing is that Caufield would be a top 5 pick if they redo the draft.

Super interesting idea, first of all in this scenario the Devils don't pass they proposed the trade. If the Habs don't get the first overall and have the 9th pick and still wanted to go after 1st overall the 7th and 9th would help them get there. So depending on the situation.

How can you say that when he hasn't played in the nhl lol.. you might be right but there is nothing to that until he plays. His stock did not sky rocket to top 10 a year in the NCAA.. like please 5 years from now you might be right. But right now there is nobody trading a top 10 pick for him

Actually Alex Newhook and Him have been the two best player outside of the top 3 this year. All the olayers selected before them haven’t perform at any near their level this year so yes is stock have significantly raise from last year. There at least 6 players that would be selected after him and i am very conservative on that number. Broberg, Podkolzin, Boldy, York, Spencer knight, Seider. And a case could very be made about Turcotte and Zegras. Sodestrom, Cozens and Byram look good but for the rest they have been outplayed in a big way by both Caufield and Newhook and have been in many expert list a the top of the nhl prospect list.
https://thehockeywriters.com/nhl-top-100-prospects-ranking/
https://www.espn.com/nhl/insider/story/_/id/28870800/ranking-top-50-nhl-affiliated-prospects-hockey-risers-fallers-new-no-1
https://www.tsn.ca/russian-players-dominate-top-spots-in-tsn-s-ranking-of-nhl-affiliated-prospects-1.1424251

So yes again is stock have raise into top 10 since last year. These are respected insider here.

If we are speaking talentwise, no way Podkolzin goes behind him. Only question there was signability. Other than that, Id put him behind Zegras and equal with Newhook (depends on how you view goal scoring vs total point production, Caufield's hands aren't great but damn can he shoot the puck), and above Turcotte. In a redraft he probably would go 7th or 8th. Would be a close call. If we are talking overall projectability sure Holtz "looks" better because he's already been playing against men and he does have better playmaking skills but I think Caufield's shot is unrivaled and there isnt really a need to take a chance when you guys already (probably) have the 9th OA.