For the first time in his career, Eller has had the chance to play consistently with talented linemates, but he had to earn it, and that has had an affect on his first half numbers.

Last year David Desharnais established himself as an offensive dynamo alongside Max Pacioretty and Erik Cole, but is he a one season wonder?

Studying the puck possession and usage of the Canadiens forward lines which lead to their Eastern Conference leading 2013 half season.

Over the next little while we'll be bringing you an avalanche of analysis on the first half of the Canadiens season. Here is an introduction to the methodology we'll be using to evaluate the players.

We're almost 50% of the way through the lockout shortened season, are the Habs looking as good as they were after 10 games?

After 10 games in this shortened season, we're nearly 21% of the way to the end of it. Do the Habs look like they're making the playoffs? Find out inside.

After examining 135 goals for the 2011-12 season, I decided it would be interesting to examine how well those results correlated with the season prior.

Montreal struggled with finding secondary sources of offence from their forwards in 2011-12 behind Cole and Pacioretty. Here are the players that played in Montreal that provided those roles, or at least when they did don the CH.

The further we look into the 2011-12 NHL season, the more obvious it becomes that Max Pacioretty and Erik Cole led the way for the Canadiens forwards across the board. So where did that place them against the rest of the NHL?

After breaking down 135 goals by 6 players, let's see what we can learn from this exercise.