The Montreal Canadiens still hold on to a decent season so far. It's good enough for the fifth place in the East, behind Sidney "hat trick" Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
There are two ways of looking at their current situation.
The first would be stating that, despite a poor and shaky powerplay, and some scorers having gone totally invisible, the Montreal Canadiens still hold on to a not-that-bad spot.
The second would cite Alexei Kovalev’s sleep addiction, Sergei Kostitsyn’s slashing addiction, and many other ones as inexcusable reasons for this really worrying slow motion performing team, which is the Bleu Blanc Rouge.
Either way, Alexei Kovalev won’t get away with it.
He has 68 shots on goal, which is the highest in the team so far, and only five of them have clinched the red light behind the masked men.
While fans are witnessing the rise of a new hero, in Steve Begin, Kovalev still holds a decent ice time of more than 20 minutes. He still puts on a few stick-handling shows now and then, but what worked last year doesn’t seem to work anymore this season. Opponents are finding ways to adjust.
It doesn’t require a CSI investigation to figure that he needs to come up with something new.
However, isn’t it too easy to spot the former top scorer of the team and blame him for whatever misery the organization is going through?
Aren’t there other individuals in there who have been provided skates and sticks, years of dreams, and tons of practices? It is not because he made a DVD out of it that he has got to do the job by himself.
Still, I will give it to the worried fans: Even though he is not the only one, he is not working. And at times of intense self-seeking periods like this, with a team which has been showing two complete opposite faces night after night, any help is welcomed.
Kovalev didn’t back down from facing the journalists. He discussed his current hum, flop, and simply stated that the last time he had a blank streak, he stopped it with a hat trick.
Is that a hidden promise? Is that good enough to brighten again the eyes of thousands of fans who have been hoping for “the Artist” to recover his “magic touch”?
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