For the first time in a long time, the Canadian is seriously talking about series. Before the start of the season, the managers wanted the club to be #DanceLeMix…and right now it’s straight into the mixer.
Winning nine of your last 11 games (something the club hadn’t done in almost eight years) in a tight Eastern Conference puts you in a good position.
The question now is to see if the club will be able to maintain the course in the second half of the season. The East being so tight, the CH will have to continue to string together victories at a regular pace if it wishes to get one of the eight tickets available for spring hockey.
However, the good news is that if we look at the difficulty of the schedules for the teams in the East between now and the end of the season, we notice that the Canadian is one of the teams who have an advantageous schedule.
We talk a lot about the big month of January at the Habs, and it makes sense considering that the club is hitting big teams in this first month of the year. That said, so far he has found a way to beat the Avalanche, Canucks and Capitals.
But it doesn’t stop there: the Stars (twice), the Maple Leafs, the Lightning, the Jets and the Wild, it’s a hell of a challenge that awaits Martin St-Louis’ troop in January.
However, in a world where the Canadian manages to come out of that month with a few victories and he is still in the mix at the start of February, he will suddenly find himself with a much easier schedule to finish the campaign… and then we can really start talking about series.
The club still needs to break its nasty habits of losing against less good clubs, while the two defeats in the last 11 games have been suffered at the hands of the respectable Blue Jackets and the powerful Blackhawks, but on paper, playing worse teams increases your chances of winning games.
We can therefore think that over the next four weeks, CH will play its season. If he is able to win five or six of his next 10 games (including the one against the Red Wings, a direct rival of the club in the race for the playoffs) in what will be one of the most difficult stretches of his season, he will suddenly be in good shape with just over two months left in the season.
I don’t know if the “real Canadian” is the one we’ve been seeing since December 17 (note that Alexandre Carrier arrived in town the next day)… but this Canadian is capable of competing with anyone. All that remains is to see if CH can continue to ride this wave over the coming weeks, now.
In burst
– What do you think?
– Jake Evans reiterates that the CH players do not lack confidence.
– Great read on Michael Hage.
– When PK Subban tries to get Matthew Tkachuk to play for the Canadian team.
– Great read.
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