The Montreal Canadiens head into the 2023 NHL Draft with a lot of hope. They have the fifth overall pick, two picks in the first round, an early second round pick and a total of 11 selections.
They will obviously be looking to add some star power and hope to avoid being added to this list in the future, where we count down the worst draft classes in Canadiens history, starting with the fifth worst.
This one came in 1964, and was the second ever amateur draft held by the NHL. Sam Pollock was the team’s general manager then, but he didn’t have a lot of preparation time, and he didn’t really have all that much to pick from in his first NHL Draft.