Jacques Martin

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The five-on-five turnaround?

Today I’d like to you about a team who, twenty-odd games in the season, was one of the top five-on-five squads in the league. Their strong possession game was reflected in their metrics, and as a…Read More

Montreal’s power play point men over the last three seasons

A key part of a successful power play is quality point men. The Montreal Canadiens have been blessed in this regard with multiple very high-quality point men over the last few years, headlined by the incomparable…Read More

Hockey Analytics: dissecting the 2011-2012 season, piece by piece

Hi, I’m Mathieu Roy, I’m a Habs fan, and I’m into hockey analytics. (Hi Mat!) I hope to bring stories with an analytic bent to A Winning Habit; and since it is the off-season, I thought…Read More

Better Know A Blogger: Oliver Bouchard of En Attendant des Nordiques

To Better Know A Blogger With summer at its height and little hockey to follow, my attentions have turned to the strange creatures that populate the internet commentariat. The few, the proud, the fanatical,…Read More

The Andrei Markov frenzy

Note: I would like to apologize for lack of activity. I was dealing with a brutal cold but posting should resume regularly. Everyone needs to relax. Around two weeks ago, Canadiens head coach Jacques Martin said…Read More

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Montreal Canadiens Month in Review: October

  What a crazy first month of the season it has been for the Canadiens. It saw an historic win in…Read More