Category: Season Reviews

Montreal Canadiens 2021-22 Forward Ratings: Rem Pitlick

By Dylan Waugh | Jul 13th 2022 | 2 min read |

Coming in at 11, and another one of those surprises, is Rem Pitlick, scoring 52.5%. Mr. Pitlick was confounding to be sure. He had the exact opposite ...

Montreal Canadiens 2021-22 Forward Ratings: Mike Hoffman

By Dylan Waugh | Jul 13th 2022 | 2 min read |

No preamble, we need to jump to the meat of this: Mike Hoffman was on the ice for the fifth-most defensive-zone draws of any forward on the Montreal C...

Montreal Canadiens 2021-22 Forward Ratings: Joel Armia

By Dylan Waugh | Jul 5th 2022 | 2 min read |

Who else was floored that Joel Armia made it this high up the list? Let’s put it this way: Jesperi Kotkaniemi would not have had a poster of Armia i...

Montreal Canadiens 2021-22 Forward Ratings: Ryan Poehling

By Dylan Waugh | Jul 5th 2022 | 2 min read |

Ryan Peohling managed to edge Laurent Dauphin for 14th by only half a percentage point, scoring a total of 32.5%. I feel like a lot of what was writte...

Montreal Canadiens 2021-22 Forward Ratings: Laurent Dauphin

By Dylan Waugh | Jul 5th 2022 | 2 min read |

Coming in at number 15 in our report card series is Laurent Dauphin. This one, admittedly, came as a bit of a surprise to me but we’ll get into why ...

Montreal Canadiens 2021-22 Forward Ratings: Paul Byron

By Dylan Waugh | Jul 5th 2022 | 2 min read |

I’m sure there was going to be a lot of debate as to who would be the lowest-ranked Montreal Canadiens forward in this series, and the fact is that ...

Montreal Canadiens 2021-22 Forward Ratings: Introduction

By Dylan Waugh | Jul 5th 2022 | 4 min read |

As much as most Montreal Canadiens fans are trying to forget that last year ever happened, accept our first overall pick, and move on, I’ve put toge...

Montreal Canadiens prospects: Grading Jacob Olofsson’s season

By Patrik Bexell | May 16th 2021 | 3 min read |

It was a roller-coaster season for Jacob Olofsson. While it finished on a high with Timrå earning the qualification to the SHL on a 4-1 series win ov...

Montreal Canadiens prospects: Grading Joni Ikonen’s season

By Patrik Bexell | May 9th 2021 | 5 min read |

This is an article I have been dreading to write for a couple of weeks. It is important to know we are speaking about people here, in this case a youn...

Ben Chiarot’s first-year progression or: Why we need to be patient with new players

By David St-Louis | Sep 10th 2020 | 5 min read |

When I first heard the news of the Montreal Canadiens’ signing of Ben Chiarot, I was skeptical. While the defenceman established himself as a solid ...