“Kirby Dach, to get by, will have to play on a third line”

Kirby Dach has played in all 14 games for the Canadiens since the start of the season.

He collected at least one point in four of these games… And he was cleared from the scoresheet ten times.

This is not what you want from a player who plays in the top-6 of your team.

We know that he has come a long way because of his injury and even before the start of the season, we said that it was going to take time before we saw him back at 100%.

But now, it’s not just difficult for Dach over the past few matches: it’s simply excruciating.

We feel that his confidence is shaken and that is normal since the results are not there. Offensive players must produce to gain confidence and that is not the case for #77 at the moment.

Renaud Lavoie spoke about the main interested party this morning on the radio (BPM Sports)… And according to him, we need to get Dach out of the top-6 at the moment because playing against the best opposing players doesn’t help him. not.

The solution, then? Dach must play on the third line to be able to regain confidence:

Kirby Dach cannot play on a first line, and Kirby Dach cannot play on a second line. Kirby Dach, to get by, will have to play on a third line. – Renaud Lavoie

The TVA Sports journalist goes on to say that Dach could also play on the fourth line, but with time on the power play and playing the minutes of a third-line guy.

Again, the goal is to boost your confidence:

Is this the ideal solution?

Actually, I ask the question because one has to wonder if this could impact one’s confidence. Seeing that he drop in alignmentmaybe it could create an opposite effect too… And we know that he already had problems at this level when he played in Chicago.

But ultimately, I agree with Renaud Lavoie: things have to change. There must be a spark somewhere, otherwise the Canadian will risk losing him in his development (which was going really well before his injury, by the way).

Martin St-Louis must try to help him in the best way possible and it is perhaps not by playing against the best opposing lines that that will happen.

On the other hand… Dach needs wingers to perform and it’s not by playing with Joel Armia or Josh Anderson that he’s going to start producing like crazy.

All this to say that it’s complicated for Dach in the top-6… And that it’s starting to be time to think of other solutions.

This is one of the (many) problems that Martin St-Louis has on his hands.