Toronto Maple Leafs Headline November Canadian Team Power Rankings
By James Tanner
The NHL’s 6th Best Canadian Team
The Montreal Canadians are 17th overall in the NHL standings, by points percentage.
That is a huge failure. They should be trying to lose, and the fact that they aren’t is ridiculous.
Sure, it might be slightly more honorable to just miss the playoffs than it is to lose on purpose, but who cares?
Teams sell advertising on jersey’s now, which is much, much worse than losing on purpose. At least losing on purpose isn’t greedy and shallow, and at least it eventually pays off for the fans.
To be fair, Montreal is outperforming their Xgoals rating, so they likely should be worse than they are, but no one made them trade for Kirby Dach or Sean Monahan.
They are not a good team, and they likely will fall down the standings, but they’d be smart to start selling things off sooner than later.
Connor Bedard will win a Stanley Cup.
It is worth finishing last in order to get him.
Why did they burn a year of Slafkovsky’s ELC?
What are they thinking?
You got me.