In the past few years, the Montreal Canadiens have made a habit of dedicating a draft to selecting several players at the same position with the hope of finding one or two diamonds in the rough.
It started in 2018 when the organization followed up the pick of Jesperi Kotkaniemi by adding fellow centremen Jacob Olofsson, Cam Hillis, Allan McShane, Samuel Houde, and Brett Stapley. The following year, it was time to stock the cupboard of left-handed defencemen by selecting Jayden Struble, Mattias Norlinder, Gianni Fairbrother, Jacob LeGuerrier, and Kieran Ruscheinski.
In 2020, the focus was mainly to get a longer look at the prospects chosen, meaning that most picks were either primed for college or Europe.