When hockey influencer Mike Bartner posted a 2022 redraft across his social media platforms Sunday, it sparked a heated debate.

Bartner had Utah Mammoth center Logan Cooley going first overall. Montreal Canadiens fans, who are known as some of the most passionate — and vocal — in the league, took offense to that.

The Canadiens had the first-overall pick that year, but funny enough, their fans weren’t arguing that Juraj Slafkovský, whom they selected with that pick, should go first in the redraft. They were touting Montreal’s late-second-round choice, Lane Hutson.

Bartner had Hutson at No. 2, and declared in the post that it was a razor-thin margin between him and Cooley, but it wasn’t enough to fend off the angry Habs fans.

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