TEMPERATURE | The Canadian will reach the 10-game mark when he visits the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday evening. A meeting in which Josh Anderson will once again try to score his first goal of the season.
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However, the 29-year-old striker has not been lacking in opportunities since the start of the season. He has already taken nine shots on goal from the bottom of the field.
Normally he would have had to hit the target two or three times.
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Again against the Golden Knights he managed to break through the defense and get to the goalkeeper almost alone. Unfortunately, he couldn’t put Adin Hill to the test.
“I would blame myself a lot more if we weren’t successful as a team. “Since everything is going well, I’m trying not to think about it too much,” said the main person concerned after Habs training. What is encouraging is that the possibilities are there. So it’s certain that it will happen at some point. »
In fact, all we can say is that it will be unlocked at some point. And if that happens, there could well be a flood of goals. It is known that goal scorers often shoot one after the other. Although that has never really been the case for Anderson since entering the NHL.
“During a season there are always weaker sequences. “You have to keep your confidence and keep working on refining your game,” the Ontario native explained.
A broken trio
Anderson isn’t the only member of this unit to have trouble finishing. Juraj Slakovsky is also aiming for his first goal of the season. As for Alex Newhook, he has scored three goals but none in the last six games.
“We watch video sequences. We try to figure out what we can improve and find the details that can help us,” Anderson explained.
Surprising in this first month of activity, the Montreal team would greatly improve its chances of showing it’s not a flash in the pan if this trio could hit the ground running.
Because it seems that Martin St-Louis will leave this trio intact despite this lack of production.
“I haven’t lost faith in this trio,” he claimed.
“Their problem is a balance problem,” he said, indicating some deficiency in the reading ability of the three attackers. You need to be able to read where the opposing players are on the ice, but also where your teammates are. If they start doing it again, things will get better.”
This is therefore an aspect of the game that we must pay attention to in the next meetings.