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Friday Habs Links: Carey Price downplays his importance to the Canadiens

Here are you daily links, including why the Habs struggle against teams with active forechecking, prospect Jérémy Grégoire as the new CHL player of the week, Carey Price on fancy stats, and more.

By Sam Li

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Jan 27, 2015; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price (31) makes a save against Dallas Stars center Vernon Fiddler (38) during the first period at Bell Centre.
Jan 27, 2015; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price (31) makes a save against Dallas Stars center Vernon Fiddler (38) during the first period at Bell Centre.
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Montreal Canadiens

  • Montreal Canadiens prospect Jérémy Grégoire was named the CHL Player of the Week. [CHL]

  • The games against the Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars show how the Habs struggle against teams with an active forecheck. [Boucher Scouting]

  • As the playoff race begins to heat up, the Habs can't afford to have any false sense of security. Interesting bit: Carey Price doesn't think he's the only reason Montreal sits comfortably in a playoff position: [NHL]

    "Price is quick to shoot down the suggestions that he is solely responsible for the Canadiens' success to date. During All-Star Weekend, he dismissed talk of shot differentials and other such statistics as nitpicking about how the Canadiens are winning games."

  • Lars Eller hasn't scored in his last ten games, and the pressure is on. He thinks that he has the talent for some powerplay time, but adds that it's still a "team game," i.e. still up to Michel Therrien to decide. [La Presse] (French)

Around the League and Elsewhere

  • Expect ads on next year's World Cup jerseys, say NHL sponsors. Oh, boo. [TSN]

  • Rogers won the rights to broadcast the 2016 World Cup over TSN, by the way. [The Globe and Mail]

  • Chris Kreider's goalie victim count now includes Jaroslav Halak of the New York Islanders, in addition to Craig Anderson, Marc-Andre Fleury, and Carey Price. Remember Chris, we skate around the goalie, not through the goalie. [Lighthouse Hockey]

  • Did you hear? Corsi just died. Yeah, the new fancy stats on NHL.com just killed it. Or so says Ken Campbell. Canucks Army just posted a very eloquent take-down of the anti-stats mentality, complete with pretty graphs. (Check out the EOTP take here) [Canucks Army]

  • Is Alexander Semin really slumping, or are his goaltenders just having bad years? Fancy stats points to the latter. [TSN]

  • A requiem to Nassau Coliseum. Katie Baker puts it perfectly: "It’s bittersweet, and just so Islanders, that the embattled team’s brightest and most fun season in ages is also, in some respects, its last." [Grantland]

  • Martin Brodeur has retired, and he was named Senior Adviser to the St. Louis Blues General Manager. [NHL]

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