Montreal Canadiens: Sean Farrell Trying To Reach Century Mark
Montreal Canadiens prospect Sean Farrell wasn’t a high draft pick, but his hockey skills have been on full display this season.
The Habs picked him with the 124th overall pick in the 2020 NHL Draft. He wasn’t expected to drop to the fourth round, but the Habs were lucky to grab him when he did.
Farrell was supposed to play college hockey at Harvard this season, but when the Ivy Leagues decided not to play due to Covid-19, he was left searching for Plan B.
That would mean a return to the Chicago Steel of the USHL, which is the top Junior aged hockey league in the United States. In 2019-20, Farrell scored 15 goals, 41 assists and 56 points in 44 games. You would expect him to be better a year later, but I don’t think anyone expected him to be this good.
Farrell’s Chicago Steel head into their final regular season game tonight with the Habs prospect running away with the league’s scoring lead.
The 5’9″ and 174 pound centre is without question the league’s best playmaker as he has 69 assists in 52 games. Add in his 29 goals and he is sitting at 98 points on the year with one more game to play. Farrell will face the Muskegon Lumberjacks in the regular season finale with the puck dropping tonight at 7:05 Central time in Chicago.
Farrell is already guaranteed to be the league’s scoring champion. His 98 points are 15 more than anyone else in the USHL. His 69 assists alone would put him third in the league in points behind teammates Matt Coronato and one point back of Josh Doan.
The Habs prospect has a chance to reach quite a milestone tonight. With two points he would finish the year with exactly 100. That doesn’t just represent a nice, round number but it would also be the first time since 2012 and only the second time since 1999 that a player reached the century mark in the USHL.
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While Farrell was expecting to play a higher level of hockey this season, he literally couldn’t have done any better after being forced to play one more year in the USHL. He is more than ready to step into college hockey and should be able to contribute offence as soon as gets to Harvard.