If you have any problems or need a friend, call Martin St-Louis. If the Canadian’s head coach decides to rethink his career one day, he could very well do it as a motivational speaker, taking inspiration from the Intrepid slogan.
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Nothing is going well with the Canadian. Saturday night, when the St. Louis Blues visit the Bell Center, the Montreal team will look to avoid the affront of an eighth straight loss. A streak the Canadian hasn’t gone through since his nine consecutive regular-time losses from April 9-24, 2022.
During the current drought, which began with an overtime loss to Colorado on Dec. 21, the Habs have conceded 36 goals, including 13 from their 25 penalties (48%). Conversely, he only scored 12. Four of those, out of 20 attempts, were the work of the massive attack.
Coach stays calm
We can speak of a period of rebuilding and say it’s a return to normal for the Canadians who should have been struggling from day one of the season with several head coaches tearing their hair out at the moment. For his part, Martin St-Louis manages to keep his composure.
“You don’t just have to focus on where you are and why you got there. You also have to think about what you have to do to get out of there,” he said at the end of the training session.
” [Le dernier voyage], it was a good experience for me. I took a step back and watched our games,” he continued.
From experience, St-Louis may refer to the point at which the pot began to boil during the voyage. In Nashville, after rigorous training, he said that “patience also has an expiration date.”
to guide players
Also, you have to be a damn good talker to convince your players that a first phase where your first shot came at the very end of the engagement was a good phase.
In St. Louis’ defense, it must be said that the Habs returned to the dressing room after 20 minutes without allowing the Rangers to score. In each of the last four games of the trip he had given up at least two, allowing the Panthers and Predators three.
“You need a plan to get out of this. You have to guide the players. Against Rangers I was happy with what we attacked. We have to keep working on our defensive zone and the rest is yet to come,” he argued the day after the 4-1 defeat.
“When can we turn the tide? I do not know. But if we focus on how to get there instead of saying, ‘We have to win, we have to win, we have to win’, we will get there more easily. »
- Jake Allen is shot at by his former team. On October 29 in St. Louis, he stopped 26 shots in a 7-4 win.