{"id":708546,"date":"2026-06-01T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708546\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:43:09","slug":"cole-caufield-candid-about-playoff-performance-honestly-i-sucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708546\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Caufield candid about playoff performance: \u2018Honestly, I sucked\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> star forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-caufield\/8481540\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-caufield\/8481540\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Caufield<\/a> didn\u2019t hold back when evaluating his playoff performance on Monday morning during the team\u2019s locker cleanout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHonestly, I sucked,\u201d said Caufield. \u201cThat\u2019s just plain and simple. I want to be a lot better. I expect a lot more of myself and my teammates and coaches do too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cNowhere near satisfied with how that went. You\u2019re getting tough matchups, but you get that all year so it\u2019s nothing to do with that. I think I can be a lot better. There\u2019s a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Caufield scored a career-high 51 goals with 88 points in 81 games during the regular season, finishing second to Colorado\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nathan-mackinnon\/8477492\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nathan-mackinnon\/8477492\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> in the Maurice \u201cRocket\u201d Richard race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He added six goals and 13 points in 19 postseason games as the Canadiens bowed out in five games to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Caufield had just one goal in Montreal\u2019s seven-game win over the Lightning in the opening round before responding with three goals in seven games against Buffalo. He managed two against Carolina, scoring the team\u2019s only goal in a 6-1 loss in Game 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After shooting at 19.8 per cent in the regular season, Caufield dipped down to 14 per cent in the postseason with 43 shots in 19 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With his 50th goal of the season on April 9 against the Lightning, Caufield became the seventh player in franchise history to accomplish the feat and the first since Stephane Richer in 1989-90.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Caufield also scored 12 game-winning goals, including five overtime winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Since being selected 15th overall by the Canadiens in 2019, Caufield has scored 169 goals with 307 points in 368 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens star forward Cole Caufield didn\u2019t hold back when evaluating his playoff performance on Monday morning during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,116093,78846,448,82],"class_list":["post-708546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cole-caufield-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481540","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}