The Official 2025 Offseason Thread: Just me, I guess

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Not nearly as bad as Anaheim employing Quenneville, but every draft article has comments from Habs fans about "We need to get into the top five / ten and we should trade 16 + 17 and Logan Mailloux to do it," and it drives me nuts.

1. There's a huge gap between the top eight or so prospects and the next batch.
2. Just because your dumbass team drafted Logan Mailloux doesn't mean other teams want him.
3. Mailloux wasn't good enough to play more than seven games with the Habs this season, so the idea that a win-now team would take him because he's an NHL contributor is nonsense.
4. Even if you'd prefer to win now -- Nashville, Boston I guess -- you only get so many chances to draft a top-six C. The thing the Habs desperately want is also wanted by other teams! Wild!

I just want the draft to happen, whichever prospect I want the Wings to pick to go at 12, and some two-way, low-ceiling, high-compete C to be drafted by the Wings. Get it over with.

[Cacophony]

Glad I dropped my athletic subscription I guess. Kinda just don’t care that much about draft stuff anymore

[Grand Moff Larkin]

I wish I didn’t care as much about it!

[practice]

drafting b2b is such a rare opportunity, I would never trade out of it

[practice]

Bruins b2b2b picks in 2015 was the highlight of the 2010s for Leafs fans https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl2015e.html