The Habs find themselves in last place in the NHL

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Honestly, even if the Canadiens are still rebuilding, and we have to think about the positive things to come in the future, the CH’s current start to the season is really depressing.

Indeed, the defeats aren’t even/no longer somewhat exciting to watch for the individual performances of the club’s young players, because nobody is performing consistently.

Seriously, aside from Lane Hutson, I can’t think of any other reason to watch the Habs games.

This may well be another season of the famous rebuild for Martin St-Louis’ troupe, but we should still be seeing progress, or at least seeing the young players improve and become more consistent.

Unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case so far, with 15 games played.

The Habs aren’t progressing compared to last season, and even seem to be regressing, which is painful every game for Martin St-Louis’s men.

Some saw the Canadiens as being in the mix or at least in “No Man’s Land” this season, but in the end, after 15 games, the Canadiens aren’t even close to such expectations, as they find themselves in last place in the NHL.

(Credit: NHL.com)

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The Habs are currently tied for last place with the vaunted San Jose Sharks, which is clearly not ideal, even if you look at it with the draft in mind.

At a certain point, yes, it’s nice to have excellent draft picks, but the Habs need to progress and improve, because right now, it really seems like the players seem to accept defeat and live with it as if it were something normal.

Of course, at the moment, apart from the Nashville Predators and Philadelphia Flyers, the NHL’s bottom-7 includes the five teams that drafted in the top-5 last season.

No team has really progressed, which may seem like a relief for the Habs, but all the same, in the end, I think seeing the team be worse than last season is a bad thing.

Not convinced that the Habs are worse than last season?

Well, to give you an idea, with yesterday’s 4-1 loss to the Maple Leafs (who were playing their second game in two nights without Auston Matthews in the line-up), the Habs have now lost six in a row, a sequence Martin St-Louis’ team never suffered last season.

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In short, there’s clearly something wrong with the Habs right now, especially over the past six games.

Cole Caufield (despite a good start to the season), Nick Suzuki, Juraj Slafkovsky and Kirby Dach all seem to be in neutral every time they appear, and we don’t see them involved.

Only Lane Hutson and Brendan Gallagher have been positive and exciting for the Habs in recent games.

Gallagher is on a 38-goal streak, with seven goals in 15 games. Last season, he reached the seven-goal plateau after 41 games.

Overtime

– With good reason.

– Of note.

– It would be phenomenal if he broke Gretzky’s record while scoring 50 goals this season.

– Incroyable.

– Indeed.

– Wow. Very cool.

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