Kent Hughes on Round 1 of the 2024 NHL Draft | FULL PRESS CONFERENCE 

man such good vibes with Hughes. he radiates confidence and competence. we are in good hands

Pretty much perfect draft from the Habs! Demidov and Hage are exactly what we needed and pretty much the best case scenario related to where we were picking. What a night !!

Kent Hughes is so much more likeable than any GM I can remember

Quel être généreux, sympathique et compétent ce Kent. J'adore ce qu'il fait et aussi ce qu'il dit....pas de langue de bois à la Bergevin... ça fait du bien.

Demidov the biggest steal of the draft... He's 2nd best player I'm the draft and Kent sniped when he got opportunity. We got out Michkov finally! In Kent we trust!

Thank you Kent. The best habs team top to bottom we will have seen in 30+ years is being build. The fans love and admire the great work you're doing.

The difference between this guy and Bergevin. Wow. We’re in good hands 🙌

Thank you for drafting Demidov HUGO im pumped seeing this guys interviews and highlights

I’m so excited - I wish Demidov could join the young group this fall! Hage seems very skilled. Let’s not forget we have Fowler in the system, he will be the next Price.

What a truly _refreshing change_ from the days of Bergevin and Timmins getting it wrong for so many years. Hughes and Gorton are doing such good things with this team. Very excited for the future. 👍

Quel repêchage

Kent Hughes est un homme intelligent, patient et qui a une vision à long terme!

Ivan des highlights pis Michael flashy Hage merci à la direction pour un draft incroyable

Man I love Kent

It was an excellent draft so far !

Great additions

The x Russian factor is in it. If scouted properly he could have easily been number one

Hughes plays 3D chess against other GMs who are still figuring out how to jump a checker.

Quel bon jack performant, on est chanceux guys !

I’d love if you guys added English subtitles on your videos.

Well! Almost everyone now is in love with Kent and that's a good thing. Heck, I'm in love too! We are seeing everything on the bright side at the moment. And Céline above all? Forget about it! But as when most of us are of bad Faith when a pick turns out to be a let down, I hope that we will not judge Kent too harshly if Demidov is ever disappointing. We will have to remember that all of us, or almost all of us, the pseudo-experts, were happy and satisfied with this choice. However, I am sure that there are some people somewhere who are not happy with Demidov's choice. Such is the nature and complexity of the human being. Somewhere, somehow, there is someone who judges that Pacino is not a good actor. But for now, for what it's worth, let's celebrate what appears to be a bright future for our legendary and historic team! Heck, let’s even talk about a future 25th Cup. Or is it 24th? I lost count. Just for a while, tho. Next week, back to the grind. But whith a pumped chest and a smile.

Bergevin who?

Hage is an underrated addition.

cook

So love this management lifelong Habs Fan

This is the face of a man who knows he’s building a playoff team

I bet you Kent said to scouts: we aren’t going to be here again for a while: three words: elite scoring talent.

Trust the HUGO plan

❤❤❤we the habs deserve SUCH "CHESS MASTERS "❤❤❤ITS ABOUT TIME TO ROAR N BE PROUD AGAIN😂😊😊😊GO HABS GO

Thank you Kent, thank you Gorton and to all the Montreal team. I am ecstatic to see Aatos being drafted. I was a kid when Koivu became captain and his contribution to the Montreal General Hospital is so heroic. Such a good story!

Welcome to Montreal Demigod.

So then, we'll see what comes of this. Looks good on paper.

If you could add the questions in text to this video, that'll be great! Can't hear them.

Hage is underrated

Merci Ch... Demidov! GO HABS GO !!!!!

Would be nice if we could hear the questions. Was the audio recorded with a potato? lol

Kent Hughes was real tough on Tony Marinaro..

Awesome that the Habs were able to get Demidov

Even Hughes knows him as Demigod....and decent english....certain the Montreal media will be talking with him often....

Merci François Gagnon

This interview not only raised the Habs choices value, it raised Hughes stock.

hats off to kent and jeff, light years better than the dumpster fire that was bergevin and co.

WOW cannot believe he fall to 5,YES GO HABS GO.

HABS NATIONS 🔵⚪️🔴 IVAN DEMINOV

I went 4 for 5 in the top 5… Celebrini Levshunov Silayev Lindstrom Demidov This was my Top 5 and I was pretty set on it about 3 months ago… Habs fans said I was crazy that Demidov would have been there for the Habs… I believed teams in the top 5 would draft for need because most of them were in the top 5 in 2023 and they all draft BPA and got some amazing players… This was my thought process… Really enjoy it when it get it right.

Kent Hughes inspire confiance, Martin St-Louis de même, la direction des Canadiens est partie pour faire un bon travail. On a déjà hâte à la prochaine saison. Ça promet. Go, Habs, Go !!!

Kent is in a really good mood here. He's just had a very good day.

Ivan Demidov c'est un peu comme Kirby Dash ou le joueur américain des Penguins je crois. Personnellement pour Kirby Dash je crois que c'est un joueur qui peut être très bon. Vu que y'a pas de triche,ou pas trop ou pour le moment dans la NHL,il (Ivan) peut faire des percées. C'est sûr que tout fait un équilibre par rapport au jeu aussi. Mais c'est pas le joueur qui va tout transformer en attaques surpuissantes ou qui va over dominer le jeu et marquer à répétition. C'est même beaucoup moins que ça et par rapport au niveau actuel de l'attaque des Canadiens ça fera pas une très grosse différence par rapport aux victoires et au classement. Et même si on compare en additionnant avec le reste de l'attaque. C'est pas que c'est un mauvais choix,c'est plus l'organisation de l'attaque (les joueurs) de l'équipe.

Je l'aime lui j'espère qu'yé icitte pour encore longtemps.

Let the wait for Demidov begin

Ca prit 30 minute for Chantal annoncait Demidov.

Great draft can’t hear the questions

good work.

Went Whugues!!!!

went 🔥🔥🔥

I love Kent

Lets do this boys 💪

BIG W

Terrible sound.... I'm glad the fans are happy.

chantal

No Stanley Cup for another 10 years

Déçu d'avoir manqué Cole Eiserrman par un choix...

Suzuki et Caufield ont joué à match,ce qui arrive après ça c'est plus de buts until the end of times vs les triches au hockey,de toutes façons ça change pas grand chose aux victoires et au classement ou si t'avais pas quelque chose de très spécial. Moi c'est ce que je crois. Tu peux jouer à match et arrêter le jeu mais le jeu s'arrêtera pas toujours. Sinon peut être que c'était parce que c'était l'ultime "kata" de leurs techniques et que si ils fesaient un peu ça depuis même la saison d'avant c'était parce qu'ils étaient très mal pris et parce que tout ça ça vient de quelqu'un d'un magasin.

Merci à Chandail Macrabé pour son talent de figurante inégalé!

You are very bad General Manager

What is this a trudeau press conference

King Kent is going down in history as one of the if not the greatest gm in nhl history: watch.