The Canadian isn’t doing great these days.
Although some people like to bring the famous mix back into the conversation once in a while, it’s clear that right now, Flannel isn’t exactly there. You’d have to shoot on goal for that.
I talked about being #DansLeMix to my guy boyfriend Tankathon and he laughed in my face. It’s hard to blame him…
While searching everywhere, I came across several elements that help define the Canadian at the moment. Why not start the week by mentioning them?
Here we go.
1. Sean McIndoe, in a text from The Athletic, mentioned that the Canadian had only one regular victory in his last 11 games. And it’s true because in the 11 games following the 3-0 victory against Edmonton, only one victory was achieved in 60 minutes.
It was December 5 against the Predators.
CH has taken four of its games to overtime in its last 11, with a 3-1 record. But in the other seven games, we’re talking about a 1-6 record, which is nasty.
But at least the club will face the Sabers tomorrow night, a club that has lost its last 10 meetings. Things aren’t going well there.
2. I say at least, but you know like me that the CH is very capable of putting out ugly performances against last place clubs. He might as well get washed tomorrow.
Besides, just to put things in perspective: the Sabers are still ahead of the CH in the standings despite the 10 defeats in a row. And they’re clearly going to be hungry.
3. This morning, on BPM Sports, Renaud Lavoie mentioned that the Canadian had taken 120 minor penalties in 30 games. Only the Bruins (129 in 32 games) are doing worse than the Flannel.
This means that CH takes four minor penalties per match, or one every 15 minutes.
In total, we are talking about 10.8 penalty minutes per game. Only Boston and Salt Lake City (11.2) have more minutes per game than the Canadian since the start of the season.
Remember that on Saturday, the Jets were entitled to six power plays. They were 2-for-6 and won by two goals against the Canadian, who was 0-4. Don’t look for noon to 2 p.m. to explain the defeat.
4. Despite everything, I went to see the effectiveness of the CH this season in numerical inferiority. The CH is currently 14th in the NHL with a percentage of 80.2. Thank you, Samuel Montembeault, Jake Evans and company.
With a 20.2% numerical advantage, the CH remains above the 100 mark by adding the two results.
5. Last year, the Canadian saw his defenders score no less than 48 times. This helped energize the attack. But this year? We’re lining up to make it twice as bad.
Jonathan Bernier wrote that the club is on track to finish with an output of 25 goals from its defensemen, or less than one goal in the three games coming from the blue line.
Mike Matheson, Kaiden Guhle and Jayden Struble, the modern-day Bobby Orr, have two goals each. Lane Hutson, Justin Barron and Logan Mailloux have one each and guys like David Savard and Arber Xhekaj have yet to find the back of the net.
Mike Matheson, who sees Lane Hutson take offensive responsibilities from him, had 11 goals last year.
In burst
– Pardon?
– Oui.
– It was expected.
