Inside the NHL’s Power Brokers: Who Truly Runs the League’s Most Dominant Franchises?
As one Eastern executive put it: “I thought, although it didn’t work, they really did a good job at the deadline last year and had a good offseason.”
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7. Montreal Canadiens
Total points: 44 (1 first-place vote, appeared on 13 ballots)
Owner: Geoff Molson
President of hockey operations: Jeff Gorton
GM: Kent Hughes
Last year: 11
Montreal exited its rebuild with a bang, earning a first-place vote and jumping into our panel’s top 10. Not long ago, the Canadiens were drafting first overall. Now, they’ve got a deep core of talented young players, with many of them signed to team-friendly long-term deals. Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield, Lane Hutson, Noah Dobson and Juraj Slavkovsky are all signed through at least 2030.
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