“I took a step back” – Martin St. Louis

If you have any issues or need a friend, contact Martin St. Louis. If one day a Canadian’s head coach wants to redirect his career, he could very well take on one as a motivational speaker and draw inspiration from the Intrepid logo.

Nothing is going well with the Canadian. On Saturday night, when the St. Louis Blues visit the Bell Center, Montreal will try to avoid the indignity of an eighth straight loss. A series that the Canadian has not gone through since he suffered nine consecutive losses in regular time from April 9 to April 24, 2022.

During the current drought, which began on December 21 with an overtime loss to Colorado, the Habs have allowed 36 goals, including 13 on 25 penalties (48%). Conversely, he scored 12. Four of them, out of 20 attempts, were the work of a wide attack.

Coach keeps calm

We might talk about the rebuilding period and say it’s a return to normal for the Canadiens who should have had a hard time since day one of the season and many coaches are currently tearing their hair out. Martin St. Louis, for his part, managed to keep his cool.

“You don’t just have to focus on where you are and why you got there. You also have to think about what you need to do to get out of it,” he said at the end of the training.

“[Le dernier voyage]Well, it was a good experience for me. I took a step back and watched our matches.”

From experience, St-Louis is probably referring to the time when the pot began to boil during the voyage. In Nashville, after a rigorous training, he noted, “Patience also has an expiration date.”

players to guide

In addition, you must be a good talker and curser to convince your players that the first period during which your first shot came at the end of the melee was a good period.

For the St. Louis defense, it must be said that Habs returned to the locker room after 20 minutes without the Rangers scoring. In each of the last four games of the trip, he gave up at least two, even allowing the Panthers and Predators three.

“You need a plan to get out of there. You have to direct the players. Against Rangers, I was happy with what we attacked. We have to keep working in our defensive area and the rest will come,” he said the day after the 4-1 loss.

“When are we going to be able to turn the tide? I don’t know. But if we choose the way to get there instead of telling ourselves, ‘We have to win, we have to win, we have to win,’ we’ll get there much easier.”

– Jake Allen will face the fire of his former team. On October 29, in St. Louis, he stopped 26 shots in a 7-4 win.