When the Montreal Canadiens entered the draft, fans were hoping for a guy like Alex Debrincat to fall to them in the second round. When they traded their two second-round picks for Andrew Shaw, they didn’t have a second pick until the third round.
However, being able to get Will Bitten with the 70th pick overall was pretty much the best case scenario after trading out of the second round. Only ISS Hockey had him ranked outside of the Top 50 of the major Draft rankings and he was as high as 28 by Future Considerations.