8 years in, still waiting for a first round MB bet to pay off. Would you say 8 years contains quite a few long runs?
https://thehockeywriters.com/montreal-canadiens-bergevin-top-five-draft-picks/
Poehling and KK are the only notable ones. KK should be doing much better but the Habs needed help "right away" and couldn't really develop him properly so by playing 3-4 line shifts against other team's grinders he will develop into a grinder. I think it's a GOOD thing he's in the minors now.
Poehling also could be going back down once Drouin and Byron come back.
But yeah, it's been a long time since they had a "hit" with a first round pick. Koivu?
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/...nadiens-1st-round-picks-over-33-years-is-ugly
Since 1985: Canadiens’ first-round picks have been Jose Charbonneau and Tom Chorske (1985), Mark Pederson (1986), Andrew Cassels (1987), Eric Charron (1988), Lindsay Vallis (1989), Turner Stevenson (1990), Brent Bilodeau (1991), David Wilkie (1992),
Saku Koivu (1993), Brad Brown (1994), Terry Ryan (1995), Matt Higgins (1996), Jason Ward (1997), Éric Chouinard (1998), Ron Hainsey and Marcel Hossa (2000), Mike Komisarek and Alexander Perezhogin (2001), Chris Higgins (2002), Andrei Kostitsyn (2003), Kyle Chipchura (2004),
Carey Price (2005), David Fischer (2006), McDonagh and
Max Pacioretty (2007), Louis Leblanc (2009), Tinordi (2010), Beaulieu (2011), Galchenyuk (2012), McCarron (2013), Nikita Scherbak (2014), Noah Juulsen (2015), Sergachev (2016), Ryan Poehling (2017) and
Kasperi Kotknianemi (2018.)
Add Cole Caufield last year.
I've highlighted the most notable players for your convenience.
Be lenient please. I'm still burned from the YLYL comments. #metoo