The Montreal Canadiens have been scouting Anaheim Ducks games lately, and you can’t help thinking a possible trade may be in the future between the two teams.

One thing that sometimes gets overblown is scout appearances at games around the Trade Deadline. NHL scouts are always looking for talent among other teams in the league, but it has a special flavour to it if teams being watched have players on the trade market. For the most part, it’s best just to ignore the 10-15 person list of attendees, but there’s been an interesting pattern lately with the Montreal Canadiens and Anaheim Ducks.

Habs scout David MacLean and Laval Rocket general manager Larry Carrière were at the Air Canada Centre on Monday to tune in the Leafs-Ducks game. Again, nothing really to look into there, sure it raises an eyebrow, but nothing to devote a large amount of thought to. That thought process is almost out the window after Anaheim faced the Buffalo Sabres.

Managing Editor of SB Nation’s Sabres site Chad DeDominics tweeted out a list of scouts at the game, and the Habs were among the teams present. This time, it was Director of Pro Scouting Eric Crawford.

Now it’s time to put our Scooby-Doo hates on here. Is there anything to this? Is it a coincidence that the Habs were scouting the Ducks twice in the same week? On the surface, this could just be management doing their due diligence making sure no stone was left untouched before making their final decision.