Montreal Canadiens
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Montreal Canadiens prospect Jérémy Grégoire was named the CHL Player of the Week. [CHL]
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The games against the Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars show how the Habs struggle against teams with an active forecheck. [Boucher Scouting]
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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.”
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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
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Expect ads on next year’s World Cup jerseys, say NHL sponsors. Oh, boo. [TSN]
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Rogers won the rights to broadcast the 2016 World Cup over TSN, by the way. [The Globe and Mail]
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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]
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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]
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Is Alexander Semin really slumping, or are his goaltenders just having bad years? Fancy stats points to the latter. [TSN]
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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]
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Martin Brodeur has retired, and he was named Senior Adviser to the St. Louis Blues General Manager. [NHL]
Brodeur, on not getting to 700 wins: “Yeah, 691. It’s not too bad.” Also said: “It’s all these lockouts. I got killed on it.”
— Nick Cotsonika (@cotsonika) January 29, 2015
