The Montreal Canadiens have serious issues on their hands right now: they’re not winning games, and their development pipeline in the AHL isn’t exacting bursting with talent outside of Nikita Scherbak and Noah Juulsen. While they did well in the last NHL draft to address two major holes in their prospect pool, the team still lacks NHL-ready (or even close to NHL-level) talent right now. Part of that comes from trading away players in deals, missing draft picks from deadline swaps, and various overall mismanagement of the assets they did have.
The Canadiens’ farm system has been an abject disaster since the time of Marc Bergevin’s arrival in the organization.