Major trade offer between the Canadiens and Nashville: Kent Hughes clearly missed a great opportunity with Askarov

In essence, by accepting the trade, Kent Hughes would have moved back his first-round pick and acquired goaltender Yaroslav Askarov.

He would have lost David Reinbacher, but would still have been able to draft a very good player (like Gabe Perreault?).

It would be interesting to ask Kent Hughes today if he regrets refusing this trade with Nashville.

See Yaroslav Askarov's statistics over 13 games

5 shutouts! He is on his way to becoming an Igor Shesterkin and an Ilya Sorokin of this world, which is huge for the Predators.

Let's give young David Reinbacher a chance, but for now, it's hard to think that Hughes made the right decision on this one.

Askarov, 21 years old, an 11th overall pick in 2020, has a record of 21-6-1 this season, with a 2.04 average and a .923 save percentage.