Before the season, on one of my multiple burner accounts, I posted my official 10 predictions about the Montreal Canadiens.
In this week’s blog, we look over them to see how good I was at predicting the future.
He will indeed finish the season with at least a point per game, thanks to another multi-point performance.
Debatable. He was again heavily tested this season. Goalies are difficult to evaluate. Goalies are generally the position that have the most impact on the game and they also have the most inconsistent workload. Fowards’ main metric is point, and the average shooting percentage in the league is around 10%. So, I will generalize that forwards can be bad more than goalies because they will mainly get judged for the 10% of shots that they can convert into goals. In opposition, a goalie is expected to save 90% of shots he faces. The margin for error for a goalie is a lot slimmer because he will be judged on 100% of shots he faces because of the repercussions on the game. With all that in mind, there was a point where Montembeault was definitely having his worst season since he was acquired by the Canadiens and people started questionning his fatigue and workload, but lately, he has been key in the late playoff push by the team. I don’t know if it’s a successful prediction. Let me know in the replies.
I think the Kirby Dach experience at the role of 2nd center is over. Sadly, it ended with an injury. Montreal is more likely than not to try to acquire someone for that role. Alex Newhook and Christian Dvorak have played really good hockey in the 2nd half of the season, but I doubt that it is enough to justify giving the 2C to either of them.
A Guhle injury saved his career. He was 7th D at the time and Guhle’s injury gave him the opportunity of a lifetime to play on the 2nd pair with Lane Hutson. That pair was one of the best pairs the Montreal Canadiens have iced this season. Combining grit, toughness and skill. Struble has earned a permanent role on the Habs D-core ever since. No, he did not get traded.
He might run both PP units eventually. Good prediction.
It’s only a question of time until it happens. Probably the next in line.
He has 19 goals now. If he ends up with 22 goals, I officially have superpowers.
This did not happen at all. He is still a really bad defender that makes way too many mistakes. And he does not have the offense that can make up for his terrible defense. He relies on the idea that “teams need teams need a tough guy” to stay in the league.
Did not happen.
It would have been such a good prediction if I did not add that 2nd half to the sentence.
I literally don’t know how he never got recalled by the Canadiens this season. He scored a lot of goals in the AHL this season and he is one of the toughest AHL players. I feel that he would have brought some element to the game that Habs 4th line was lacking. Bad prediction.
This is probably one of my worst blogs ever. I still hope you enjoyed that light read on this Sunday morning.
Have a good week and enjoy the final days of the NHL regular season!