Timo Meier Scored More Goals in Two Periods Than Almost Every Montreal Canadiens Player This Season

The Montreal Canadiens are the worst team in the National Hockey League and they proved that without any doubt last night.

The Habs lost 5-2 to the Arizona Coyotes and fell three points back of the Yotes for last place in the standings.

While there are many reasons for the Canadiens struggles this season, the biggest reason they continue to lose games is a complete lack of offence. The Canadiens have a putrid 7-25-5 record and have only scored 78 goals in their 37 games this season, which is 2.1 goals per game. Things are getting worse as they have scored only 23 goals in their past 14 games.

That isn’t close to enough to win many games in the National Hockey League. The Canadiens don’t have anyone that should contend for a goal scoring title, but they do have enough good players that they should be scoring more frequently than they are right now. Injuries haven’t helped the case, but that isn’t enough to explain the team barely being able to scrape together two goals per night.

Shortly after the Habs most embarrassing loss of the season, a setback to the team that is trying to be the worst in the league, another player’s exploits highlighted the lack of scoring in Montreal.

Timo Meier and the San Jose Sharks were playing the Los Angeles Kings on the west coast in a game than ended shortly after the Habs loss in Arizona. In that Sharks game. Meier scored five goals, giving him 20 on the season in just his 35th game.

The Canadiens might not have anyone score 20 goals over this entire season.

Also, the five goals that Meier scored is more than all but three Canadiens have scored all season. Josh Anderson and Nick Suzuki lead the team with seven goals this season and Jonathan Drouin is next in line with six. No one else on the team has more than five.

We are now 37 games into the Montreal Canadiens season, and only three players have scored more goals in a Habs sweater this season than Timo Meier scored last night.

Yuck.