Montreal Canadiens first round picks over the past number of years have not really lived up to the hype.
Some of them were taken later on in the first round so they shouldn’t have had the highest of expectations to begin with, but there was still a long run of first round players that were not able to make a big impact, or any real impact at the NHL level.
After taking Ryan McDonagh and Max Pacioretty in the first round of the 2007 NHL Draft, there was a bit of a dry spell.
Louis Leblanc, Jarred Tinordi, Nathan Beaulieu, Alex Galchenyuk, Michael McCarron, Nikita Scherbak and Noah Juulsen were selected in the first round between 2009 and 2015.