Ok after last nights boring loss, I wanted to see how much better the Habs are through the same amount of games in the last season. Results were pretty underwhelming.

Did a player by player comparison. New players are compared against last years player in that same position. (Doesn't work perfectly for some guys but you get the idea) TLDR; New additions and youth have all been great this year, all the vets from last years team except for Petry have been way worse.


Year GP W L OTL PTS PTS %
20-21 team 27 12 8 7 31 0.574
19-20 team 27 11 10 6 28 0.519


Year Name GP G A Pts +/-
20-21 Alexander Romanov 26 1 4 5 4
19-20 Cale Fleury 21 1 0 1 -6

20-21 Joel Edmundson 27 1 6 7 25
19-20 Mike Reilly (S/B Mete) 11 0 4 4 1

20-21 Corey Perry 20 5 5 10 7
19-20 Jordan Weal 19 3 1 4 -5

20-21 Tyler Toffoli 27 15 8 23 12
19-20 Nick Cousins 21 2 5 7 1

20-21 Nick Suzuki 27 5 12 17 3
19-20 Nick Suzuki 27 6 7 13 -3

20-21 Paul Byron 26 2 5 7 2
19-20 Paul Byron 19 1 3 4 3

20-21 Jeff Petry 27 11 14 25 14
19-20 Jeff Petry 27 2 12 14 -3

20-21 Jesperi Kotkaniemi 27 3 11 14 8
19-20 Jesperi Kotkaniemi 20 3 2 5 -5

20-21 Jonathan Drouin 27 2 16 18 1
19-20 Jonathan Drouin 19 7 8 15 4

20-21 Brendan Gallagher 27 10 6 16 6
19-20 Brendan Gallagher 27 10 9 19 3

20-21 Brett Kulak 23 0 4 4 5
19-20 Brett Kulak 16 0 2 2 -7

20-21 Josh Anderson 24 10 4 14 1
19-20 Max Domi 27 6 11 17 2

20-21 Victor Mete 7 0 0 0 0
19-20 Victor Mete 26 3 5 8 6

19-20 Nate Thompson 27 1 6 7 -2
20-21 Jake Evans 25 2 3 5 3

20-21 Artturi Lehkonen 21 2 2 4 -2
19-20 Artturi Lehkonen 27 6 6 12 4

20-21 Ben Chiarot 25 1 4 5 -2
19-20 Ben Chiarot 27 3 7 10 4

20-21 Joel Armia 20 5 5 10 8
19-20 Joel Armia 25 10 5 15 4

20-21 Phillip Danault 27 1 10 11 8
19-20 Phillip Danault 27 6 13 19 5

20-21 Shea Weber 27 5 7 12 0
19-20 Shea Weber 27 8 13 21 6

20-21 Tomas Tatar 26 5 11 16 2
19-20 Tomas Tatar 27 9 15 24 -4

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so basically the same team but a little better

So basically Danault's line and Weber/Chiarot sucks

From the looks of it, in a nutshell, yes. The teams top D pair and top Fwd line are the main reasons why the Habs suck this year. Price obviously deserves a little blame as well.

Tatar and Danault aren’t producing as much due to a reduced role. Weber has gotten worse.

For Chiarot the points don’t matter, but he has been bad this year.

Petry and Toffoli have been phenomenal, Suzuki & KK have shown growth, Anderson has been an upgrade on Domi (despite having fewer points, but that’s not the type of player he is). Also Edmundson has been much better than every defenseman from last year other than Weber or Petry.

We are definitely suffering from the lack of production of the Danault line. It use to be our main offensive tool... but It can't be relied on this year.

Our D is good on paper, but the first pair is not mobile enough to play against Canadian teams built on speed.

Another aspect that I think might explain some of our difficulties is the fact that that we all play the same 6 teams all the time. MTL is a team that needs a strong system to operate... saddly, while playing only in-division, teams are able to really analyse our system and implement a counter-system.

while on a regular season... teams cannot really implement a system against a team they will see 3 or 4 times in a 82 game schedule. this year... 10 games on 54 is worth it.

You can see all teams that beat the habs use the same thing.... wingers coming down the wing with speed, center is position to tip the puck behind our D. + 2 man pressure on our Dman on the forecheck. Our Defense is not mobile enough (especially Chariot and Weber) to counter it.

While the habs are using a back pass to the D... where our wingers need to stop at the blue line. If we can't enter the zone with possession, we are screwed.

Teams have been implementing a 1 -3- 1 trap against us... which is super effective. That's why most of our chances come from the rush. We can't create offense otherwise.