{"id":424958,"date":"2026-01-24T05:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/424958\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:13:15","slug":"interesting-trade-idea-with-arizona-for-1st-pick-in-2022-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/424958\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Trade Idea With Arizona For 1st Pick In 2022 NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montreal Canadiens should not move the first overall pick in the 2022 NHL Draft unless it\u2019s an offer they can\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n

On the most recent episode of the always fascinating 32 Thoughts Podcast, <\/a>host Jeff Marek brought forth an interesting proposal to co-host Elliotte Friedman that would make any general manager stop and think.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re the Montreal Canadiens, and I know you\u2019re hosting the draft. If the Arizona Coyotes come to you and say \u2018We will give you our No. 3 overall pick and our first-rounder next season in exchange for the 2022 first overall pick,\u2019 what do you say?\u201d asked Jeff Marek.<\/p>\n

The Coyotes are not looking to improve significantly for next season and will likely be a bottom-five team yet again next season. To offer the Canadiens their 1st round pick for next season, effectively giving them a legit shot at Connor Bedard, Matvei Mitchkov or Adam Fantilli, just to move up two spots is effectively overkill. Kent Hughes would be crazy not to want to accept such a deal, and Friedman rightfully shot down this possibility as soon as he heard it.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my god! You can\u2019t even do that if you\u2019re Arizona,\u201d said Friedman in outrage. \u201cIf I\u2019m Montreal, I do it. I don\u2019t even think that offer gets made; no chance!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Would Hughes Actually Trade The 1st Pick In The 2022 NHL Draft?<\/p>\n

Although he was very excited about the possibility of picking first overall in Montreal, Hughes also mentioned that he would still entertain discussions for the 1st overall pick, should a team blow them away with an offer.\u00a0 Hughes cautioned against going into the NHL Draft with a closed mind, preferring to keep his options open.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re always better off listening to what people say. At the moment, I can\u2019t tell you that it\u2019s not something we would entertain,\u201d said Hughes about the possibility of trading the 1st overall pick. \u201cIf we get calls for the pick we\u2019ll listen, but it\u2019s not in our plans to trade this pick.\u201d<\/p>\n

That being said, it would take a monumental offer not to see the Montreal Canadiens pick 1st overall at the upcoming 2022 NHL Draft<\/a>. Hughes is very excited at the idea of adding a cornerstone piece for his franchise moving forward and is now headed to Helsinki to put the finishing touches on his NHL Draft board.<\/p>\n

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\t\tMarc has been covering the Habs for over a decade. He previously worked for Journal Metro, The Athletic, The … More about Marc Dumont<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens should not move the first overall pick in the 2022 NHL Draft unless it\u2019s an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[1695,2656,5,21,4,465,466,4433],"class_list":{"0":"post-424958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-arizona-coyotes","9":"tag-habs","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-draft","14":"tag-nhl-entry-draft","15":"tag-nhl-trade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115948369857987225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}