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Montreal Canadiens has the third overall choice, but must develop for a specific need for an NHL project this year.

In Montreal, the Canadiens was a lousy season in 2017-18. It started badly, and they never returned the train to the tracks. There were many more falls than the takeoffs for the Habs, which, unfortunately, they could not overcome.

However, this leads to the fact that the team rises to the podium to the majority in the NHL project. Canadiens was the 28th best album in the 31st team. Thanks to a small lottery, they jumped on the third overall choice.

This gives the team the opportunity to add a much needed shot of talent. When the team sits so low in the standings, they can usually add talent to any position. However, Habs can afford to be a little more picky than most teams on the wrong end of the page of the standings.

Canadiens, obviously, will not seek to add a goalkeeper in the near future. They also boast an impressive group of winged on both sides of the line. Shea Weber, Jeff Petri and Noah Iulseen seem to be the right side of the blue line for years to come.

This leaves Montreal with needs in the center and on the left defense. This was an understatement, let me try again. Montreal Canadiens desperately needs a huge infusion of talent in the center and will have a great chance in the lottery in 2019 if they can not find a suitable partner for Weber.

The problem is that the consensus of the third common choice is the winger. So there will be a fourth choice. The fifth choice looks like a winger. It usually makes sense to draw the best available player, especially at the top of the draft.

However, adding a qualified winger does not fill the need for Habs. They should try to fill the organizational need with a third common choice.

This is more than two decades, in Montreal there was not enough ice center. They thought they had occupied the first center of the first line for the last time, when they had the third overall choice, but Alex Galchenyuk remains on the wing. Last year they exchanged their best prospect for a winger and tried to put him in the center.

The team desperately needs the upper center of the bonafide. They have a chance to fill this void in June this year in Dallas. The consensus choice is Philip Zadina or Brady Tkachuk, a couple of winged ones. Great players, but definitely not the most suitable for Habs.

The Canadiens must focus their attention on the best mediators. Forget Zadina or Tkachuk, block your target Joe Veleno, Rasmus Kupari, Yesperi Kotkaniemi or Barrett Haiton.

The Canadiens were looking for the center of the first line longer than the Philadelphia Flyers were looking for the starting goalkeeper. It's time to finally put an end to their search. They have the opportunity in this project and they need to use it.
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