Now that the season is over for the Montreal Canadiens, Kent Hughes can get down to the business of reshaping a roster in which Marc Bergevin attempted to patch some holes to keep competitive into one more in line with the current plan to build around existing, emerging, and soon-to-be-drafted young talent.
Hughes had been working just to get some bodies signed for the NHL team, inking Chris Wideman to an extension and bringing Otto Leskinen back into the fold after he had gone as an unsigned restricted free agent on the reserve list for the entirety of 2021-22.