What happened?

I was expecting Galchenyuk to be traded last year. My assumption and of many others was that the habs were offered nothing of substance that could interest them. Likely what was offered was a second or third round pick like the habs got for Beaulieu. Anything better the habs would probably have jumped at the offer. Instead Bergevin signed him for three years, and obviously nowhere was there discussion of a no trade or no movement clause. I have never seen a more reluctant offer being made by the habs since the Subban debacle. So why did this third pick overall never pan out? His development or lack of development reminded me of another prospect of the habs that flamed out Guillaume Latendresse. The similarities were that the habs needed both of them to succeed at an accelerated pace. Latendresse was brought in as a scoring power forward and a francophone to boot. He never played a game in the AHL. Instead of a steady development and improvement in the NHL, Latendresse regressed seaso