Canadiens 1995 1st Half Season in Review Part 3

MONTREAL – Yesterday, we reviewed the Montreal Canadiens first half of the season and looked specifically at some of the players. Today, we take a look at the individual players.

In terms of team honors, Andrew Cassels leads the way with 39 star points in 38 games, good for 7^th overall in the league,  followed by Trevor Linden with 29 points in 39 games and Fedorov is in 3rd place with 15 points in 39 games.

Fedorov has 12 goals and 26 assists in 39 games, he is on pace to finish the season at 24 goals and 53 assists for 77 points, which is exactly in line with last year's season total of 30 goals and 47 assists.  He currently sits at -17 which is much better after a full season last year where he landed at -37. His contribution to the power play has been largely underwhelming from a goal scoring point of view with only 3 goals so far which puts him on pace for 6 PP goals for the season, well below last year's 9 PP goals. He hasn’t scored any shorthanded goals. He has 0 game winners so far and 0 game tying goals. This is also largely unusual. Many of his assists were on the Power play where he is spending more time setting up goals rather than scoring them. He's also on pace for 211 hits which is slightly below last year’s 227 hits (his personal record).   His PIM are also trending much higher than last year, projecting to be 49 PIM whereas last year he finished at 34 PIM.  He's also on pace for 201 shots, which is in line with last year's 197.

He's missed 1 games so far this season which is a decent  start of the year health wise.  Fedorov is the current leader in Assists (26).

Cassels leads in points (39), and goals (16). Linden in +/- (+5), Niedermayer in shots (104), and hits (106), and McSorley in PIM (162).

Roloson leads the team with a GAA of 3.81 and a save percentage of .874.  Roloson played in 28 games and is 8-8-2. Wamsley played in 26 games, going 7-10-2 and a GAA of 4.12 and a save percentage of .859.  Vernon also got into some games and carries a GAA of 3.75 and save percentage of .872.  The goalie situation is a complete carrousel so we will look at it again later in the season. 

Tomorrow, we look at the farm club Laval which is having a disappointing season so far.

-The Montreal Gazette