2. Skating speed<\/p>\n
Montreal ranked among the top 10 teams in 22-plus mph speed bursts (100; ninth) and 20-plus mph bursts (2,142; sixth) last season. In terms of 20-plus mph bursts, Montreal forwards ranked fifth (1,749) and its defensemen ranked seventh (393) in the same category.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Forwards Josh Anderson<\/a> (257) and Suzuki (237) each ranked in the 98th percentile among forwards in 20-plus mph speed bursts last season. Suzuki, who also had Montreal’s fastest speed burst (23.62 mph; 96th percentile at position) of the year, finished sixth in the NHL in scoring (101 points) to become the first Canadiens player with a 100-point season since Mats Naslund<\/a> (110 in 1985-86). In terms of max skating speed among forwards, Kirby Dach<\/a> (23.42 mph; 94th percentile), Anderson (23.28 mph; 92nd percentile), Alex Newhook<\/a>\u00a0(23.14 mph; 89th percentile) and Slafkovsky (23.03 mph; 85th percentile) were also standouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hutson, who finished fourth in points (78) among defensemen last season, ranked ninth at his position in 20-plus mph speed bursts (141) and seventh in the NHL in total skating distance (295.21 miles). The 22-year-old, who was the first Canadiens defenseman with a 75-point season in 40 years (Larry Robinson<\/a> had 82 points in 1985-86), also ranked highly at the position in 22-plus mph bursts (five; 94th percentile) and max skating speed (22.97 mph; 92nd percentile). In terms of 20-plus mph speed bursts among defensemen, Mike Matheson<\/a> (90; 93rd percentile) and Noah Dobson<\/a>\u00a0(65; 87th percentile) were notable contributors to Montreal’s team speed.<\/p>\n Per NHL EDGE IQ, the Canadiens ranked seventh in goals off the rush (90; goals coming within five seconds of puck crossing offensive blue line) last regular season, with Caufield (18; tied for third in NHL) and rookie Oliver Kapanen<\/a>\u00a0(11) being their leaders in the category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. Skating speed Montreal ranked among the top 10 teams in 22-plus mph speed bursts (100; ninth) and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-856006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}