Cayden Primeau has been in Laval for a little over three weeks and he quickly found the bearings he had lost with the Canadian.
Since he was traded to the Rocket just after Christmas, Primeau has presented statistics that bear a striking resemblance to those accumulated by Dobes with the Canadiens.
In four games, he has a perfect record of four victories, including one shutout. His goals allowed average is also very good at 1.48 while his efficiency rate is .939.
Evil tongues will say that given the statistics of the two goalkeepers since they exchanged places, that everyone is ultimately in the right chair. But that would be a bit reductive.
Rhythm
“I focused on playing and finding a little rhythm and I see that I am more focused when I play more consistently and I am more exposed to the rhythm of a match,” confided Primeau after training from the Rocket, Monday.
Primeau played his last game on December 1 against the Bruins in Boston, so even if he saw action in practice, he was obviously rusty.
“I try to refine the small details and I feel that I am progressing from match to match,” underlines Primeau who can put into practice the lessons of Éric Raymond with whom he worked at the Canadian and of Marco Marciano, his old accomplice which he found with the Rocket.
-“I work well with both, but I’ve known Marco longer so I found myself in familiar territory. It also allows me to have different perspectives. Sometimes there can be too many chefs in the kitchen and when I was younger in minor hockey it could distract me, but experience now allows me to select what works best for me.
To be seen
It was again about trust. Primeau reiterated that he did not experience a lack of confidence when he crossed the Rivière des Prairies and he was able to convince Pascal Vincent.
“I don’t think he’s a young man who’s talking for the sake of saying nothing or just talking for the sake of talking. In my head, he needed trust, but I didn’t know him. But he said that was not the case, that he just needed to play and I have to believe him,” explained the coach who sees Primeau putting himself in a good position.
“He puts himself in a position to be looked at. If it’s not by us, it could be by another team. He wants to play in the National League. Saying it and wanting it is one thing, but what do you do to achieve it?
“The coaches, we are GPS for the players, we show them the path and on a path there are often lots of detours, sometimes you run out of gas a little or a tire bursts [ce qui compte] It’s how you react to it. He had a detour, it didn’t go the way he wanted at the start of the season. Do you react like a victim or in a positive way? He took matters into his own hands.”
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